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 11.32
यथा, सद्यः शिरांसि चापान् वा नमयन्ति महीभुजः. अत्र शिरश्-चाप-नमन्याभ्यां सन्धि-विग्रहाव् उपलक्षितौ, तयोः सह विधातुम् अशक्यत्वाद् विरोधस् तुल्य-बलत्वं चोभयोः कार्यत्वात्. उभयोर् अपि नमनयोः स्पर्धायाः सम्भाव्यमानत्वात् तद् इत्य् अन्ये. चारुता चौपम्य-गर्भत्वेन.
yathā, sadyaḥ śirāṃsi cāpān vā namayanti mahībhujaḥ. atra śiraś-cāpa-namanyābhyāṃ sandhi-vigrahāv upalakṣitau, tayoḥ saha vidhātum aśakyatvād virodhas tulya-balatvaṃ cobhayoḥ kāryatvāt. ubhayor api namanayoḥ spardhāyāḥ sambhāvyamānatvāt tad ity anye. cārutā caupamya-garbhatvena.
For example: “Let the kings at once bend their heads or their bows” (Sāhitya-darpaṇa). Here, peace and war are indicated by “bowing the heads” and “bowing the bows” respectively. That is a contradiction since both cannot occur at the same time. They have equal force because they are the effects of those two. Others say “bowing the heads” and “bowing the bows” have equal force in the sense that the speaker conceives of them in that way due to a spirit of rivalry. The charm of the contradiction is that it includes an implied similarity.