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 7.31
शुभ-क्षयं पितृ-वनं जीवितेशाय सा ययौ. अत्र मङ्गलालयं पितुर् उद्यानं कान्तं द्रष्टुम् आगतेति विवक्षितम्. मङ्गल-नाशश्मशान-यम-प्रतीतेर् अमङ्गल-बोधिता.
śubha-kṣayaṃ pitṛ-vanaṃ jīviteśāya sā yayau. atra maṅgalālayaṃ pitur udyānaṃ kāntaṃ draṣṭum āgateti vivakṣitam. maṅgala-nāśaśmaśāna-yama-pratīter amaṅgala-bodhitā.
[This exemplifies amaṅgala-dāyī aślīla (inauspicious and unpleasant) in a sentence:] śubha-kṣayaṃ pitṛ-vanaṃ jīviteśāya sā yayau, “She went to the father’s courtyard, an abode of auspiciousness, for her lover” (adapted from Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 10.45). Here, what is meant is this: “She came to her father’s garden, an abode of auspiciousness, to see her lover.” However, the sentence makes one perceive inauspiciousness because śubha-kṣaya (an abode of auspiciousness) also means “the end of auspiciousness,” pitṛ-vanam (father’s courtyard) also means “cemetery”, and jīviteśa (lover) (lit. the master of one’s life) is a name of Yamarāja.