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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...

अथ क्वचिद� अदोशाश� � भवन्तीत्य् आह,

atha kvacid adośāś ca bhavantīty āha,

Now he says that on occasion a fault is not a fault:

na doṣa� sva-padenoktāv api sañcāriṇa� kvacit ||7.63ab||

Even when a ⲹ󾱳-屹 is stated by name, sometimes the usage of that word is not faulty.

yatra sva-vyāpāreṇa sañcārī bodhayitum aśakyas tatra sva-śabdenāsau vācya�.

A ⲹ󾱳- can be stated with the word that denotes it when the ⲹ󾱳-屹 would not bring about an understanding of itself by its effect.

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