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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यच�-छब्द-सन्निधाव� इदम्-आदीना� लिङ्�-विभक्त�-भेदेऽप� नैराकाङ्क्ष्यम� एव�
yac-chabda-sannidhāv idam-ādīnā� liṅga-vibhakti-bhede'pi nairākāṅkṣyam eva.
The sense is complete (the correlativeness is properly expressed) even when idam, adas, and so on, are juxtaposed to yat in a different gender and case ending:
پ ṇa-gaurāṅgī yeda� ܱԲ-ūṣaṇa |
candraś cakasti yas tena 辱� pathikāṅganā� ||
پ—sԱ; ṇa—l gold; gaura—are fair; ṅgī—she whose limbs; —w; idam—t; ܱԲ-ūṣaṇa�ornament of the world; Ի�—t moon; cakasti—sԱ; ⲹ�—w; tena—by it; 辱�—are afflicted; pathika—of travelers; ṅg�—t women.
A woman () whose limbs are fair like gold: This (idam) is an ornament of the Earth.
The travelers� wives are afflicted by the radiant moon.