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 11.38 [Pūrva-rūpa]
71. Pūrva-rūpa
पुनः स्व-गुण-सम्प्राप्तिः पूर्व-रूपम् उदीर्यते ॥ ११.९ab ॥
punaḥ sva-guṇa-samprāptiḥ[1] pūrva-rūpam udīryate || 11.9ab ||
When a thing reobtains its own quality, that is pūrva-rūpa (previous form).
Commentary:
The ornaments from here to the end are taken from Jayadeva’s Candrāloka. In Kuvalayānanda, Appaya Dīkṣita copied Jayadeva’s methodology. Among these ornaments, Paṇḍita-rāja Jagannātha only accepts praharṣaṇa, pariṇāma, and anujñā. The pūrva-rūpa ornament is a form of the tad-guṇa ornament (taking a quality of another) (10.236).
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
sva-gaṇa-samprāptiḥ (Kāvya-mālā edition).