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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उदाहरणम्,
विकचं वारिजं वीक्ष्य मधुपावलि-भूषणम् ।
एणी-दृशः स्खलद्-वेणि वदनं स्मृतवान् हरिः ॥
udāharaṇam,
vikacaṃ vārijaṃ vīkṣya madhupāvali-bhūṣaṇam |
eṇī-dṛśaḥ skhalad-veṇi vadanaṃ smṛtavān hariḥ ||
vikacam—open; vārijam—a lotus; vīkṣya—upon seeing; madhupa—of bees; āvali—is a series; bhūṣaṇam—on which the ornament; eṇī-dṛśaḥ—of the doe-eyed woman; skhalat—totter; veṇi—on which the braids; vadanam—the face; smṛtavān—remembered; hariḥ—Hari.
Upon seeing a blown lotus adorned with a series of bees, Hari remembered the doe-eyed girl’s face, on which the braids fall.
Commentary:
A second-rate smṛti vyabhicāri-bhāva dhvani is called the smaraṇa ornament if a similarity is the cause of the remembrance.
This is Mammaṭa’s example:
kara-yuga-gṛhīta-yaśodā-stana-mukha-viniveśitādhara-puṭasya |
saṃsmṛta-pāñcajanyasya namata kṛṣṇasya romāñcam || (Sanskrit rendering)“Let us bow to the thrill Kṛṣṇa experienced when He remembered the Pāñcajanya conchshell while His hands were holding Yaśodā’s breasts with His lips at the nipples” (Kāvya-prakāśa verse 551).