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 4.49
तद्-आभासा अनौचित्य-प्रवर्तिताः ॥ ४.३६b ॥
tad-ābhāsā anaucitya-pravartitāḥ || 4.36b ||
Instances of rasābhāsa (semblance of a rasa) and of bhāvābhāsa (semblance of a bhāva) occur because of inappropriateness.
tayo rasa-bhāvayoḥ. anaucityaṃ ca sthāyi-vibhāvānubhāvādi-vairūpyam eva. tatrāneka-puruṣa-niṣṭhā anubhaya-niṣṭhā muni-guru-patnī-gatā ced ratis tadā sthāyi-vairūpyam.
The pronoun tat stands for tayoḥ, which means “of a rasa and of a bhāva.” Inappropriateness is simply a distortion of the sthāyī, of a vibhāva, or of an anubhāva. Among them, if the rati of the woman is based on more than one man, or if the lovers’ rati is one-sided, or else if the rati relates to the wife of a sage or of a teacher, that is a distortion of the sthāyī.