Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana
by Gaurapada D膩sa | 2015 | 234,703 words
Baladeva Vidyabhusana鈥檚 Sahitya-kaumudi covers all aspects of poetical theory except the topic of dramaturgy. All the definitions of poetical concepts are taken from Mammata鈥檚 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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啶囙う啶� 啶班啶啶 啶呧じ啶ぞ啶�-啶掂う啷� 啶掂啶う啶苦啶班ぃ啷嵿く啷囙そ啶た 啶掂啶曕啶粪啶い啷�. 啶ぅ啶�,
ida峁� 谤奴辫补办补m asam膩sa-vad vaiyadikara峁噛e'pi v墨k峁ate. yath膩,
The 苍颈谤补峁単补 谤奴辫补办补 also occurs when there is no compound, and even when the two words do not have the same case ending. Two examples are shown in sequence:
mukham ambujam 耻迟辫腻诲测补 m峁沢膩k峁 catur膩nana岣� |
产丑谤耻惫腻 tu madhupa-艣re峁嚹箖 vidadhe caturas tava ||
mukham鈥攖丑别 face; ambujam鈥攁 lotus; 耻迟辫腻诲测补鈥攁fter creating; 尘峁沢补-补办峁鈥擮 doe-eyed woman; 肠补迟耻岣�-腻苍补苍补岣�鈥�叠谤补丑尘腻 (鈥渉e has four faces鈥�); 产丑谤耻惫腻鈥攚ith the brow; tu鈥攐苍濒测; madhupa鈥攐f bees; 艣谤别峁嚹玬鈥攁 series; vidadhe鈥攈e made; 肠补迟耻谤补岣�鈥攃濒别惫别谤; tava鈥携辞耻谤.
Doe-eyed girl, 叠谤补丑尘腻 created your lotus face. Then, clever as he is, he fashioned a row of bees only with your brow.
Commentary:
笔补峁囜笉颈迟补-谤腻箩补 闯补驳补苍苍腻迟丑补 gives an example of a noncompounded metaphor: buddhir 诲墨辫补-办补濒腻 loke yay膩 sarva峁� prak膩艣ate, 鈥淚ntelligence is the light by means of which everything in this world is revealed鈥� (Rasa-驳补峁単腻诲丑补谤补, KM p. 242; p. 233).
闯补驳补苍苍腻迟丑补 also illustrates metaphors where the upameya and the 耻辫补尘腻苍补 have dissimilar case endings:
kai艣ore vayasi krame峁嘺 tanut膩m 膩y膩ti tanvy膩s tan膩v
膩g膩miny akhile艣vare ratipatau tat-k膩lam asy膩j帽ay膩 |
膩sye p奴r峁嘺-艣a艣a峁卥at膩 nayanayos t膩d膩tmyam ambhoruh膩峁�
ki峁� c膩s墨d am峁泃asya bheda-vigama岣� s膩ci-smite t膩ttvika岣� ||鈥淭he age of adolescence gradually made its appearance in her body. Then her body became thin. Just when Cupid, who has sway over all, was about to make his abode in that slender girl, by his order the nature of a moon took place in her face, the character of lotuses occurred in her eyes, and a veritable identity with nectar became evident in her crooked smile鈥� (Rasa-驳补峁単腻诲丑补谤补, KM p. 242).