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...
Text 10.170
(2) [Here one thing is made to be in many locations in succession:]
कचानां कौटिल्यं हृदयेऽपि कृतं त्वया |
काठिन्यं कुचयोर् अत्र चित्ते’पि न्यस्तम् एतया ||
kacānāṃ kauṭilyaṃ hṛdaye'pi kṛtaṃ tvayā |
kāṭhinyaṃ kucayor atra citte’pi nyastam etayā ||
You placed the crookedness of your hair in your heart, and she put the hardness of her breasts in her mind.
Commentary:
This is Mammaṭa’s example:
bimboṣṭha eva rāgas te tanvi pūrvam adṛśyata |
adhunā hṛdaye’py eṣa mṛga-śāvākṣi lakṣyate ||“Slender girl, at first your rāga was seen on your bimba-fruit lips. Now, fawn-eyed one, this same rāga is perceived in your heart as well.”
Mammaṭa explains:
rāgasya vastuto bhede’py ekatayādhyavasitatvād ekatvam aviruddham,
“Although the rāga is respectively different (redness; passion), there is no contradiction because the two words rāga merged into one” (Kāvya-prakāśa, verse 514 vṛtti).