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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 10.179 [ղǰپ]

38. ղǰپ

व्याजोक्तिश् छद्मनोद्भिन्नवस्तु-रू�-निगूहनम् � १०.११८cd �

ǰپś chadmanodbhinnavastu-ū貹-Ծū󲹲Բ || 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]; Ծū󲹲Բ—t concealment.

ղǰپ (artful concealment) is the concealment, by means of deceit, of the nature of an idea that had begun to become manifest.

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[1]:

udbhinnatvam asphuṭasya ś�. tathā cāsphuṭam api vastu-svaū貹� kathañcid vyaktam atha kenāpi yad apahnūyate sā ǰپ� (屹ⲹ-ī貹).

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