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...

स्फुटम् एकत्र विषये शब्धार्थालङ्कृति-द्वयम् । व्यवस्थितं च ॥ १०.१४१abc ॥

sphuṭam ekatra viṣaye śabdhārthālaṅkṛti-dvayam | vyavasthitaṃ ca || 10.141abc ||

sphuṭam—clearly; ekatra—in one place; viṣaye—in a substratum; śabda-artha-alaṅkṛti—which is an ornament of sound and an ornament of meaning; dvayam—a pair; vyavasthitam—is established; ca—also (there is another saṅkara).

When both an ornament of sound and an ornament of meaning clearly exist in the same substratum, that is another variety of saṅkara, called ekatra viṣaye saṅkara (two ornaments in the same compound).

ekasminn eva pade yady ubhāv api śabdārthālaṅkārau sphuṭaṃ tiṣṭhatas tadā tṛtīyaḥ saṅkaraḥ.

The third saṅkara takes place when both an ornament of sound and an ornament of meaning clearly exist in the same declined word.

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