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 11.47 [Pariṇāma]
75. Pariṇāma
परिणामः क्रियार्थश् चेद् आरोप्यो विषयात्मना ॥ ११.११cd ॥ [९१८]
pariṇāmaḥ kriyārthaś ced āropyo viṣayātmanā || 11.11cd ||[1]
If, for the sake of making sense of the action, the upamāna is semantically constructed in terms of having the nature of the upameya, that is pariṇāma (modification).
kiñcit-kāryopayogitayā nibaddhasyāropyamāṇasya svatas tad-upa-yogitvāsambhavād yadi viṣaya-rūpatāpatter apekṣā syāt tarhi pariṇāmaḥ.
If it is required that the upamāna (standard of comparison) assume the nature of the upameya, since the upamāna cannot possibly carry out the action attributed to itself, that is pariṇāma.
Commentary:
Ruyyaka introduced pariṇāma in poetical theory.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
pariṇāmaḥ kriyārthaś ced viṣayī viṣayātmanā | (Kuvalayānanda 21); pariṇāmo’nayor yasminn abhedaḥ paryavasyati | (Candrāloka 5.22)