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...
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क्रमेणोदाहरणम्,
krameṇodāharaṇam,
Examples are shown in order. [Here each next thing is affirmed as a characteristic of the preceeding thing:]
vṛndāvanaṃ divya-latā-parītaṃ
latāś ca puṣpa-sphuritāgra-bhājaḥ |
puṣpāṇy api sphīta-madhuvratāni
madhuvratāś ca śruti-hāri-gītāḥ ||
vṛndāvanam—the forest of Vṛndāvana; divya-latā-parītam—surrounded by divine creepers; latāḥ—the creepers; ca—and; puṣpa—by flowers; sphurita—distinguished; agra-bhājaḥ—they have tips; puṣpāṇi—the flowers; api—and; sphīta—large; madhu-vratāni—which have bees; madhu-vratāḥ—the bees; ca—and; śruti—the ears; hāri—captivate; gītāḥ—whose songs.
Vṛndāvana is filled with divine creepers. The creepers have tips that abound in budding flowers. The flowers have large bees. And the bees’ humming charms the ears. (Vidagdha-mādhava 1.24)
Commentary:
This is Paṇḍita-rāja Jagannātha’s example:
sa paṇḍito yaḥ sva-hitārtha-darśī hitaṃ ca tad yatra parānapakriyāḥ |
pare ca te ye śrita-sādhu-bhāvāḥ sā sādhutā yatra cakāsti keśavaḥ ||“An intelligent person is one who sees what is beneficial to himself. Benefit involves not offending others. Those others are persons who adopt a righteous mode of living. And righteousness is that in which Keśava shines” (Rasa-gaṅgādhara, KM p. 463).