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 11.52
यथा,
राधा कुङ्कुम-पीताङ्गी हरि-पीत-पटाञ्चिता ।
धत्ते द्वि-गुणितां प्रातः पीततां पश्यतालयः ॥
yathā,
rādhā kuṅkuma-pītāṅgī hari-pīta-paṭāñcitā |
dhatte dvi-guṇitāṃ prātaḥ pītatāṃ paśyatālayaḥ ||
rādhā—Rādhā; kuṅkuma—due to saffron paste; pīta—is yellow; aṅgī—whose body; hari—of Hari; pīta—yellow; paṭa—with the garment; añcitā—endowed; dhatte—assume; dvi-guṇitām—doubled; prātaḥ—in the morning; pītatām—a yellowness; paśyata—all of you should look; ālayaḥ—O friends.
Look sakhīs, in the morning, with Hari’s yellow garment, Rādhā, whose body is yellow with saffron paste, assumes a doubled yellow color.
Commentary:
This is another instance of anuguṇa,
śrī-rādhāyā dyuti-śabalitā kṛṣṇa-kāntiḥ samṛddhā
protsarpantī marakata-nibhā vyānaśe kānanaṃ tat ||“Rādhā’s effulgence and Kṛṣṇa’s intense luster combine as an emerald-like splendor that pervades the forest of Vṛndāvana” (Govinda-līlāmṛta 12.31).