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 10.179 [ղǰپ]
38. ղǰپ
व्याजोक्तिश् छद्मनोद्भिन्नवस्तु-रू�-निगूहनम् � १०.११८cd �
ǰپś chadmanodbhinnavastu-ū貹-ԾūԲ || 10.118cd ||
Ჹ-ܰپ�—t ornament called ǰپ (“speaking with a pretext�); 峾—by deceit; udbhinna—which has begun to emerge; vastu—of an idea; ū貹—of the nature[1]; ԾūԲ—t concealment.
ղǰپ (artful concealment) is the concealment, by means of deceit, of the nature of an idea that had begun to become manifest.