Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana

by Gaurapada Dāsa | 2015 | 234,703 words

Baladeva Vidyabhusana’s Sahitya-kaumudi covers all aspects of poetical theory except the topic of dramaturgy. All the definitions of poetical concepts are taken from Mammata’s Kavya-prakasha, the most authoritative work on Sanskrit poetical rhetoric. Baladeva Vidyabhushana added the eleventh chapter, where he expounds additional ornaments from Visv...

अरुणं च नील-नलिन-प्रभम् अपि नयनं प्रिये मयि ते ।
आसन्नश् च ममायं हृदि कम्पश् चम्पक द्योते ॥

aruṇaṃ ca nīla-nalina-prabham api nayanaṃ priye mayi te |
āsannaś ca mamāyaṃ hṛdi kampaś campaka dyote ||

aruṇam—reddish; ca—and; nīlablue; nalina—like a lotus; prabham—whose shine; api—and; nayanam—eyes; priye—O beloved; mayi—toward Me; te—Your; āsannaḥ—has sat down (or has set); ca—and; mama—of Mine; ayam—this; hṛdi—in the heart; kampaḥtrembling; campaka—like a campaka flower; dyote—O You whose effulgence.

Sweetie, you have the radiance of a campaka flower. Your lotus-like eyes have become red. Now my heart is overtaken by a tremor. (Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 8.215)

atra guṇa-kriyayoḥ.

There is a simultaneous occurrence of a quality (redness) and an action (trembling).

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