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 10.241 [Vyāghāta]
60. Vyāghāta
यद् यथा साधितं केनाप्य् अपरेण तद्-अन्यथा ॥ १०.१३८cd ॥
तथैव यद् विधेयेत स व्याघात इति स्मृतः ॥ १०.१३९ab ॥
yad yathā sādhitaṃ kenāpy apareṇa tad-anyathā || 10.138cd ||
tathaiva yad vidheyeta sa vyāghāta iti smṛtaḥ ||10.139ab||
yat—if (yat = yadi); yathā—in which way; sādhitam—is effected; kena api apareṇa—by some other [person]; tad-anyathā—in a way other than that; tathā eva—in the same way; yat—which [thing]; vidheyeta—might be done; saḥ—that; vyāghātaḥ—the ornament called vyāghāta; iti—thus; smṛtaḥ—is remembered (is known from the tradition of poets).
If something is done by one person and is done in a different way by another by the same means, that is vyāghāta (contrasted contradiction).
kenāpi kartrā yad vastu yenopāyena sādhitaṃ tac ced apareṇa taj-jigīṣuṇā tenaiva vānyathā kriyate tarhi vyāghātaḥ.
If a thing effected by one means by one doer is done in another way by another doer, who wants to defeat the first doer, by the same means, that is vyāghāta.