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 11.35 [Arthāpatti]
70. Arthāpatti
दण्डापूपिकान्यार्थागमोऽर्थापत्तिर् इष्यते ॥ ११.८cd ॥
daṇḍāpūpikānyārthāgamo'rthāpattir iṣyate || 11.8cd ||
When another meaning is arrived at by the logical reasoning called “the stick and the cake,” that is arthāpatti (presumption).
mūṣikena daṇḍo bhakṣitaś ced iha sthaḥ pūpo’pi tena bhakṣita iti nyāyo daṇḍāpūpikā. tayānyārthāgamo’rthāntara-pratyayo’rthāpattir ity arthaḥ.
If the stick was eaten by a mouse, then the cake which was on it was eaten by that mouse. That is the logical reasoning called “the stick and the cake.” The understanding of another sense by means of that is the arthāpatti ornament.
Commentary:
The arthāpatti of poetics is not the same as the arthāpatti of Mīmāṃsā. The daṇḍāpūpikā-nyāya originates from Nyāya philosophy. However, in this matter Appaya Dīkṣita prefers the term kaimutika-nyāya (the logical reasoning of “how much more”).[1] He reiterates Pīyūṣa-varṣa Jayadeva’s example: sa jitas tvan-mukhenenduḥ kā vārtā sarasīruhām, “The moon was defeated by your face, so what need be said about lotuses?” (Candrāloka 5.37) (Kuvalayānanda 120).
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
kaimutyenārtha-saṃsiddhiḥ kāvyārthāpattir iṣyate | (Kuvalayānanda 120)