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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...

वैधर्म्याद� यथ�, थिस्

vaidharmyād yathā,

This is a particular instance corroborated by a generality, by a contrast:

ṇāḥ Գٳ me sadyas tyaktāyā nanda-ūԳܲ | satya� tā eva īԳٳ yāsā� 󲹱ī ṛt� ||

ṇāḥ—t life airs; Գٳ—should go away; me—of mine; ⲹ�—at once; ٲⲹ�—who was abandoned; nanda-ūԳܲ—b ṛṣṇa (“Nanda’s son�); satyam—tܱ; —tDz women; eva—oԱ; īԳٳ—should live; —wDz; 󲹱ī—has a result; ṛt�—aپDz.

ṛṣṇa, my lover, abandoned me. Let my life force leave my body at once. Truly, only those women whose course of action becomes fruitful should live.

atra pūrvārdha� parārdhena samarthyate.

Here the first half (the first two sentences) is corroborated by the second.

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