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 10.177
उदाहरणम्,
अमेध्य-प्रतिजातस्य विट्-पात्रस्य विनाशिनः ।
वपुषः परिपोषाय मूढाः पापानि कुर्वते ॥
udāharaṇam,
amedhya-pratijātasya viṭ-pātrasya vināśinaḥ |
vapuṣaḥ paripoṣāya mūḍhāḥ pāpāni kurvate ||
amedhya—impure; pratijātasya—which is born again; viṭ—of foul matter; pātrasya—which is the recipient; vināśinaḥ—which is going to perish; vapuṣaḥ—of the body; paripoṣāya—for the growth; mūḍhāḥ—fools; pāpāni—sins; kurvate—make.
Fools commit sins to develop the body, which is impure, which repeatedly takes birth, which has foul matter, and which is going to perish.
atra heyatvenāsaṃrakṣaṇīyatvābhiprāyāṇi viśeṣaṇāni.
Here the adjectives have a purpose: To express that the body should not be pampered since it is going to be given up.
Commentary:
The verse exemplifies kāvya-liṅga in the form of parikara because the adjectives, translated in the form of clauses, are the reason for calling such people fools.