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 11.34
यथा वा,
पतत्य् अविरतं वारि नृत्यन्ति च शिखण्डिनः ।
अद्य कान्तः कृतान्तो वा दुःखस्यान्तं करिष्यति ॥
yathā vā,
pataty avirataṃ vāri nṛtyanti ca śikhaṇḍinaḥ |
adya kāntaḥ kṛtānto vā duḥkhasyāntaṃ kariṣyati ||
The rain is incessantly falling and the peacocks are dancing. Now let either my lover or death bring about the end of my unhappiness.
atra vipralambhānukūlyena sā.
Here the charm occurs by the suitability of the mood of separation.
Commentary:
This is another example of vikalpa,
nāda-vyājāt kṣipasi kaṭhine gāralīm āmṛtīṃ vā
dhārāṃ vaṃśi praṇaya sakhi no jīvanaṃ vā mṛtiṃ vā |
tābhyāṃ nānyāṃ vitara viṣamāṃ hā daśām atyasahyāṃ
gopyaḥ kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikalā vaṃśikām ittham āhuḥ ||“Confounded by love for Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs addressed the flute: “O flute, cruel friend, under the pretext of sound you cast a vibration that is either poisonous or nectarous. Make us die or make us live, but alas do not increase a vexatious and highly intolerable condition which is different than those two” (Govinda-līlāmṛta 17.27).