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 10.247 [Saṅkara]
62. Saṅkara
अविश्रान्ति-जुषाम् आत्मन्य् अङ्गाङ्गित्वं तु सङ्करः ॥ १०.१४०ab ॥
aviśrānti-juṣām ātmany aṅgāṅgitvaṃ tu saṅkaraḥ || 10.140ab ||
aviśrānti-juṣām—the ornaments’ (“which do not partake of a repose”); ātmani—in itself (in themselves) (or in a body [of words][1]); aṅga-aṅgitvam—being a secondary aspect and being the main thing; tu—only; saṅkaraḥ—the ornament called saṅkara.
When ornaments cannot exist by themselves and have the relation of aṅga and aṅgī, that is saṅkara (interdependent mix of ornaments).
ta eva ced ātmany aprapta-svātantryā mitho'nugrāhyānugrāhakatāṃ dhārayanti, tarhi saṅkara-nāmā.
If ornaments are not independent of one another, in other words they assume the relation of “facilitator and facilitated”, that is the ornament called saṅkara.
Commentary:
Generally, the ornament which is the aṅga (secondary aspect) is the facilitator, and the ornament which is the aṅgī (main thing) is facilitated.[2] However, that is not always the case. Moreover, saṅkara has three varieties; the two others are mentioned ahead (10.252; 10.257).
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