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 11.31 [Vikalpa]
69. Vikalpa
विरोधे तुल्य-बलयोर् विकल्पश् चारुता-जुषि ॥ ११.८ab ॥
virodhe tulya-balayor vikalpaś cārutā-juṣi || 11.8ab ||
A charming contradiction between two things of equal force is called vikalpa (alternative).