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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Text 2.7
व्यङ्ग्यस्� यथ�,
vyaṅgyasya yathā,
This is an example of a suggestive implied sense:
nṣiṇ� ṣi貹 ܰṅg ٲ� sṣiṇ� bhava sakhībhir anvitā |
� kila dunoti 峾 asau � śṛṇܳٲ � śṇḍԲ�[1] ||
na—not (i.e. do not); ṣiṇ�—two eyes; ṣi貹—please cast; ܰṅg—O doe; ٲ�—eɳ; sṣiṇ� bhava—become a witness; sakhībhi� anvitā—endowed with female friends; ��spring (or ); kila—iԻ; dunoti�burns (i.e. torments); 峾—m; asau—H; �—who are saintly; śṛṇܳٲ—all of you should hear; ��(a vocative term); śṇḍԲ�—O peacocks.
O doe, do not cast your eyes everywhere: You, along with your friends, should become my witness. Listen, O good-hearted peacocks: Spring (or ) is tormenting me! (ٲ)
atra nirjano’ya� deśa iti vyaṅgyo’rtha�. svacchandam iha mayā saha vihareti vyañjayati.
The implied sense is: “This is a solitary place.� It suggests this idea: “Here, You (her lover) can take pleasure with me as You like.�
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
ś-ٰⲹ� (ٲ).