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...
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उदाहरणम्,
विपदः सन्तु नः शश्वत् तत्र तत्र जगद्-गुरो ।
भवतो दर्शनं यत् स्याद् अपुनर्-भव-दर्शनम् ॥
udāharaṇam,
vipadaḥ santu naḥ śaśvat tatra tatra jagad-guro |
bhavato darśanaṃ yat syād apunar-bhava-darśanam ||
This is an example (Kuntī Devī speaks to Śrī Kṛṣṇa):
May calamities be our lot time and time again, O guru of the universe, because it is in a time of danger that we are blessed with Your sight, and because seeing You means seeing the end of our material life. (Bhāgavatam 1.8.25)
Commentary:
Anujñā was introduced in poetical theory by Appaya Dīkṣita.[1] The following is another illustration of anujñā. Brahmā prays:
tad bhūri-bhāgyam iha janma kim apy aṭavyāṃ yad gokule'pi katamāṅghri-rajo-'bhiṣekam |
yaj-jīvitaṃ tu nikhilaṃ bhagavān mukundas tv adyāpi yat-pada-rajaḥ śruti-mṛgyam eva ||“May I have profuse good fortune by which I will have some birth in this forest so that I may receive a sprinkle of the foot dust of someone in Gokula for whom Lord Mukunda is all in all. To this today, His foot dust is sought after even by the personified Vedas” (Bhāgavatam 10.14.34).