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 11.2 [Bhāṣā-sama]
Bhāṣā-sama
तत्र शब्दालङ्काराः,
tatra śabdālaṅkārāḥ,
Among them, at first the ornaments of sound are expounded:
Bhāṣā-sama
śabdair eka-vidhair eva bhāṣāsu vividhāsv api |
vākyaṃ yatra bhavet so’yaṃ bhāṣā-samaka ucyate[1] ||11.1||
When the words of a text are the same in many languages, that is the ornament called bhāṣā-sama (the same in many languages). (Sāhitya-darpaṇa 10.10)