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 10.187
उदाहरणम्,
राधया माधवो भाति माधवेनैव राधिका |
रजन्या राजते चन्द्रश् चन्द्रेणेह रजन्य् अपि ||
udāharaṇam,
rādhayā mādhavo bhāti mādhavenaiva rādhikā |
rajanyā rājate candraś candreṇeha rajany api ||
Mādhava is resplendent with Rādhā, and Rādhikā is resplendent only with Mādhava. The moon is resplendent with the night, and the night is resplendent with the moon.
Commentary:
The above verse features two anyonya ornaments. This is Jagannātha’s example:
para-pūruṣa-dṛṣṭi-pāta-vajrāhati-bhītā hṛdayaṃ priyasya sītā |
aviśat para-kāminī-bhujaṅgī-bhayataḥ satvaram eva so’pi tasyāḥ ||“Fearing the thunderbolt-like strikes of the darts of the glances of other men, Sīta at once entered the heart of her beloved, and He entered the heart of His beloved out of fear of the female snakes that are other beautiful women” (Rasa-gaṅgādhara, KM p. 455).