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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अथालङ्कार-दोषान् दर्शयति,

athālaṅkāra-doṣān darśayati,

Now he illustrates the faults in ornaments:

eṣāṃ doṣā yathā-yogaṃ sambhavanto’pi kecana |
ukteṣv antaḥ patantīti[1] na pṛthak-pratipāditāḥ ||10.142||

Although some literary defects might occur in an ornament, depending on the circumstance, they were not expounded separately because they are included in the aforementioned defects.

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[1]:

ukteṣv antar-bhavantīti (Kāvya-prakāśa).

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