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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...

अत्र रसस्� रसेन सह विरो� इत� यद� उक्तम्, तत� तु तत�-सामग्री-भूतस्य स्थाय्य्-आदेर� एव � तु रसस्�, तस्य विगलित-वेद्यान्तर-स्वरूपत्वात्�

atra rasasya rasena saha virodha iti yad uktam, tat tu tat-sāmagrī-bhūtasya sthāyy-āder eva na tu rasasya, tasya vigalita-vedyāntara-svarūpatvāt.

In this chapter, when it was said that rasas are mutually contradictory, that only relates to a ٳ⾱-屹 which has all the ingredients of a rasa (, Գܲ屹, and ⲹ󾱳) (aesthetic delight) (4.7-8), not to rasa (rapture), because in rasa, by nature all else that is known fades away (4.7 ṛtپ).

Commentary:

Mammaṭa ends the chapter only in this way: rasa-śabdenātra sthāyi- ܱ貹ṣyٱ, “The ٳ⾱-屹 is indicated by the word rasa� (屹ⲹ-ś).

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