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 11.28 [Vicitra]
68. Vicitra
विचित्रं त्व् इष्ट-लाभाय तद् विरुद्धं विचेष्टितम् ॥ ११.७cd ॥
vicitraṃ tv iṣṭa-lābhāya tad viruddhaṃ viceṣṭitam || 11.7cd ||
When, for getting the intended result, a person does something contrary to the usual means of obtainment, that is vicitra (amazing).