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 10.194 [Sāra]
44. Sāra
उत्तरोत्तरम् उत्कर्षो भवेत् सारः परावधिः ॥ १०.१२३cd ॥
uttarottaram utkarṣo bhavet sāraḥ parāvadhiḥ || 10.123cd ||
uttara-uttaram—in such a way that it is higher and higher; utkarṣaḥ—the eminence; bhavet—is; sāraḥ—the ornament called sāra; para—is the highest; avadhiḥ—whose end.[1]
When the things enumerated gradually increase in excellence up to the limit, that is sāra (climax).
uttarottaraṃ nirūpyamāṇasyotkarṣasya cet paryante viśrāntis tadā sāraḥ.
If in the end there is a repose of a gradual eminence, that is sāra.