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 11.24
उदाहरणम्,
प्राणापहारं हरिर् अप्रियं द्विषां
मखापहारं च बलाच् छची-पतेः ।
स्थानापहारं फणिनश् चकार यत्
तेनैव तेषाम् अभवत् सुमङ्गलम् ॥
udāharaṇam,
prāṇāpahāraṃ harir apriyaṃ dviṣāṃ[1]
makhāpahāraṃ ca balāc chacī-pateḥ |
sthānāpahāraṃ phaṇinaś cakāra yat
tenaiva teṣām abhavat sumaṅgalam ||[2]
prāṇa—of the life force; apahāram—the removal; hariḥ—Hari; apriyam—not dear; dviṣām—of enemies; makha—of the sacrifice; apahāram—the disruption; ca—and; balāt—by force; śacī-pateḥ—of Indra (“Śacī’s husband”); sthāna-apahāram—the removal of the domicile; phaṇinaḥ—of the snake; cakāra—did; yat—which; tena eva—just by that; teṣām—of theirs; abhavat—occurred; su-maṅgalam—much auspiciousness.
Hari killed enemies, disrupted the sacrifice to Indra by force, and made Kāliya live in another place. By so doing He benefited each one of them. (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-śeṣa 4.254)
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
apriya-dviṣāṃ (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-śeṣa).