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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...

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Text 10.116 [վśṣoپ]

21. վśṣoپ

विशेषोक्तिर् अखण्डेषु कारणेष� फलावचः � १०.१०८ab �

śṣoپr akhaṇḍeṣu ṇeṣu phalāvaca� || 10.108ab ||

śṣa-ܰپ�—t ornament called śṣoپ; akhaṇḍeṣu—a; ṇeṣu—when the causes are present; phala-�—t nonmention of a result (mentioning the absence of an effect).[1]

Not mentioning the effect when all the usual causes are present is śṣoپ (no effect in spite of a cause).

kāraṇa-kalāpe saty api kāryānuktir śṣoپ�. sāpi pūrva-vad dvedhā.

Not stating the effect although the whole set of causes is present is śṣoپ. It has two varieties, as in the case of .

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[1]:

akhaṇḍeṣu militeṣu prasiddha-kāraṇeṣūkteṣu kāryābhāva-Բ� śṣoپ�. atrāpy aprasiddhe kāryābhāva-hetau paryavasānād virodhābhāva� (屹ⲹ-ī貹).

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