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 10.173 [Anumāna]
36. Anumāna
अनुमानं तद् उक्तं यत् साध्य-साधनयोर् वचः ॥ १०.११७cd ॥
anumānaṃ tad uktaṃ yat sādhya-sādhanayor vacaḥ ||10.117cd||
anumānam—the ornament named anumāna (syllogism); tat—that; uktam—is called; yat—which; sādhya-sādhanayoḥ—of a sādhya (“what is to be proved”) and of a sādhana (a cause, “it proves it”) (sādhana = hetu); vacaḥ—the expression.
When a sādhya and a sādhana are expressed, that is called anumāna (inference).
vicchittyā cet sādhanāt sādhyasya jñānaṃ tadānumānam.
If by the literary strikingness there is the knowledge of a sādhya (the thing to be proved) from a sādhana (a reason, a universal rule), then there is anumāna.