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 7.16
व्यवहितार्थ-प्रतीतिकं क्लिष्टम्. श्रीवास-जन्म-भूदाभाञ् जघान दनुजान् विभुः. अत्र श्रीवासः पद्मं तज्-जन्म-भूर् जलं तद्-दो मेघस् तद्-आभान् इति क्लिष्टम्.
vyavahitārtha-pratītikaṃ kliṣṭam. śrīvāsa-janma-bhūdābhāñ jaghāna danujān vibhuḥ. atra śrīvāsaḥ padmaṃ taj-janma-bhūr jalaṃ tad-do meghas tad-ābhān iti kliṣṭam.
(14) The fault named kliṣṭa (hard to understand) occurs when the perception of the meaning is hindered. For instance: śrīvāsa-janma-bhū-dābhāñ jaghāna danujān vibhuḥ, “Vibhu killed the cloud-like demons.” Here the compound śrīvāsa-janma-bhū-dābhān is hard to understand: śrīvāsa (lit. the residence of Lakṣmī) means a lotus, the place of its birth (janma-bhū) is water, that which gives water (janma-bhū-da) is a cloud; they were like clouds.
Commentary:
This literary fault (kliṣṭa) and the next two only occur in a compound (7.2 vṛtti). A compound is classed as a pada (one declined word).