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 11.39
यथा,
तव कर-कमल-स्थां स्फाटिकीम् अक्ष-मालां
नख-किरण-विभिन्नां दाडिमी-बीज-बुद्ध्या ।
अनुकलम् अनुकर्षन् येन कीरो निबद्धः
स भवतु मम भूत्यै वाणि ते मन्द-हासः ॥
yathā,
tava kara-kamala-sthāṃ sphāṭikīm akṣa-mālāṃ
nakha-kiraṇa-vibhinnāṃ dāḍimī-bīja-buddhyā |
anukalam anukarṣan yena kīro nibaddhaḥ
sa bhavatu mama bhūtyai vāṇi te manda-hāsaḥ ||
tava—your; kara-kamala—in the lotus hand; sthām—located; sphāṭikīm—crystalline; akṣa-mālām—garland of rudrākṣa beads; nakha—of the nails; kiraṇa—by the rays; vibhinnām—altered; dāḍimī—of pamegranates; bīja—of seeds; buddhyā—by thinking; anukalam—time and time again; anukarṣan—while dragging; yena—by which [gentle smile]; kīraḥ—a parrot; nibaddhaḥ—was caught; saḥ—that [gentle smile]; bhavatu—may it be; mama—my; bhūtyai—for the well-being; vāṇi—O Sarasvatī; te—your; manda—gentle; hāsaḥ—smile.
O Sarasvatī, may your gentle smile, due to which the parrot was caught, exist for my well-being. Thinking that the rudrākṣa beads were pomegranate seeds, the parrot was constantly picking on those beads, whose appearance had become crystalline by the effulgence of your nails, in your lotus hand.
Commentary:
The rudrākṣa beads had become whitened by the effulgence. They regained their redness due to the redness of her hand.