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...
Text 2.39
एवं व्यञ्जनां निरूप्य तद्-आश्रयम् आह,
evaṃ vyañjanāṃ nirūpya tad-āśrayam āha,
After discoursing on Suggestiveness in this way, he mentions its basis (the means of communication):
tad-yukto vyañjakaḥ śabdaḥ ||2.20a||
tat-yuktaḥ—endowed with it (vyañjanā); vyañjakaḥ—suggestive; śabdaḥ—a word.
A suggestive word is that which is endowed with it.
tayā vyañjanayā yuktaḥ śabdo vyañjaka ucyate.
A word endowed with Suggestiveness is called a suggestive word.