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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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[Although the container is vast, the contents seem to exceed it:]

यस्यास� तनोर� अन्तर् अलोक� मात्रा
  विश्वं करे’द्रिः कमलत्वम् आप �
श्री-राधिकास्याम्बु�-दर्शनोत्था
  मुदो ममुस� ता � हरेर� बतास्याम� �

[1] tanor antar aloki ٰ
  viśva� kare’dri� kamalatvam 貹
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śī-󾱰峾Ჹ-岹śԴdzٳٳ
  mudo mamus tā na harer batāsyām
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yasyā� tano�—o which body; Գٲ�—in the inside; aloki—was seen; ٰ—by the mother; ś—the universe; kare—on the hand; —the mountain; kamalatvam—the state of being a lotus; 𲹳; śī-󾱰--ambuja—Śrī Rādhikā’s lotus face; 岹śԲ—from seeing; ܳٳٳ�—a; ܻ岹�—the joys; —were measured; —those [joys]; na£dz; 󲹰�—o Hari; bata—how amazing; —in this [body].

How amazing! The pleasure, arisen from gazing at Rādhikā’s lotus face, in Hari’s body defies measurement, unlike the universe, seen by ۲śǻ within it, and unlike Govardhana Hill, which, on His hand, turned out as a lotus. (Govinda-ī峾ṛt 17.13)

atrādhāra-bhūtāyās tanor mahatve’py ādheya-bhūtānā� mudā� tato’pi mahattvam.

Here, although the body, the container, is vast, what is meant to be expressed is that the joy, the contents, is vaster than the body.

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[1]:

ⲹٳ (Govinda-ī峾ṛt). The correlative ٲٳ is understood in the last line. ṛn屹Բ 䲹ī comments: ܻ岹� harer asyā� tanau ٲٳ na � ٳԲ� na prāpu� (ԲԻ岹⾱ī 17.13).

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