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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...

यथ� वा,

yathā vā,

This is another example (this verse illustrates ṛṣṇa’s ū-岵):

kanakādri-niketa-ٲī-첹 kalpa-kalevara-ܳپ� |
ṛd mudir-medure 貹 mā� kim ṅkṣyپ ||

kanaka—o gold; adri—is a mountain; niketa—whose abode; ٲī—a ٲī tree; —endowed with (or made of); kalpa-kalevara—o the desire body (dream body); ܳپ�—whose splendor; ṛd—in the heart (on the chest); ; mudira—o clouds; —like a mass; medure—[the chest,] which is glossy; —fickle (or ṣmī); ; kim—wٳ?; ṅkṣyپ—She will adorn.

The tones of the splendor of Her perfect body resemble a budding ٲī tree on a golden mountain. When will She, fickle like lightning, adorn the moonsoon cloud of My glossy chest? (վ岹-󲹱 2.26)

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