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...
Text 10.126
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; 峾—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.