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 10.179 [Vyājokti]
38. Vyājokti
व्याजोक्तिश् छद्मनोद्भिन्नवस्तु-रूप-निगूहनम् ॥ १०.११८cd ॥
vyājoktiś chadmanodbhinnavastu-rūpa-nigūhanam || 10.118cd ||
vyāja-uktiḥ—the ornament called vyājokti (“speaking with a pretext”); chadmanā—by deceit; udbhinna—which has begun to emerge; vastu—of an idea; rūpa—of the nature[1]; nigūhanam—the concealment.
Vyājokti (artful concealment) is the concealment, by means of deceit, of the nature of an idea that had begun to become manifest.