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 10.186 [Anyonya]

41. Anyonya

क्रियया तु परस्परम् ॥ १०.१२०d ॥
वस्तुनोर् जननेऽन्योन्यम् ॥ १०.१२१a ॥

kriyayā tu parasparam || 10.120d ||
vastunor janane'nyonyam || 10.121a ||

When two entities do the same action to each other, that is anyonya (mutual effect).

vastunī yadi kriyayā mitho hetū tadānyonyālaṅkāraḥ.

If two entities are a mutual cause by one action, then that is the anyonya ornament.

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