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 10.229 [Sāmānya]
56. Sāmānya
प्रस्तुतस्य यद् अन्येन गुण-साम्य-विवक्षया ।
prastutasya yad anyena guṇa-sāmya-vivakṣayā |
aikātmyaṃ badhyate yogāt tat sāmānyam iti smṛtam ||10.134||
When the oneness between the subject of description and the other thing is portrayed with the intent to express the sameness of quality, that is sāmānya (sameness).
prastutasya pradhānyena varṇanīyasyānyenāprastuta-padārthena yogāt samparkād[1] yad aikātmyam apṛthak-pratīyamānatvaṃ samāna-guṇatva-pratipādanāya nibadhyate tat sāmānyam. (See above.)
Commentary:
Narahari Sarasvatī Tīrtha explains: sāmānyālaṅkāram āha prastuteti, prastutasyāprastutena vastunā sādhāraṇa-guṇa-yogāt aikarūpyaṃ sāmānyam ity āha atādṛśam apīti, “Sāmānya is the oneness that occurs because of the union between a quality of the prastuta and the same quality of the aprastuta” (Bāla-cittānurañjinī). Sāmānya is the opposite of mīlita (indistinct) in the sense that in mīlita one of the two things is not perceived (10.213).