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...
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क्रमेणोदाहरणम्,
krameṇodāharaṇam,
Examples are shown in order. (1) [Here one thing is in many places in succession:]
ceto madīyaṃ cikure nipatya mukhāmbujāmoda-vilāsi-mukte |
tasyāḥ samārūḍha-kucādri-sānuśrameṇa nābhī-sarasi nyamāṅkṣīt ||
cetaḥ—mind; madīyam—my; cikure—on the hair; nipatya—after falling; mukha-ambuja—of the lotus of the face; āmoda—[endowed with] the scent; vilāsi—and wavy; mukte—loosened; tasyāḥ—her; samārūḍha—which was climbed; kuca—of the breasts; adri—of the mountain; sānu—[on the topic of] the top; śrameṇa—because of the fatigue; nābhī—of the central point; sarasi—in the pond; nyamāṅkṣīt—became immersed.
After falling on her hair, which was loose, wavy and endowed with the fragrance of her lotus face, my mind became immersed in the pond of her centerpiece on account of the fatigue engendered by reaching the top of the mountain of her breasts.