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 11.25 [Vidhi-ābhāsa]
विध्य्-आभासो निषेधे चेद् विधिर् व्यक्तं समीक्ष्यते ॥ ११.७ab ॥
vidhy-ābhāso niṣedhe ced vidhir vyaktaṃ samīkṣyate || 11.7ab ||
When the speaker apparently enjoins an idea that he or she does not really desire, that is vidhi-ābhāsa (semblance of an enjoinment).