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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यथा वा,
yathā vā,
This is another example of bhagna-prakrama (broken symmetry):
yaśaḥ prāptuṃ ripūñ jetuṃ svargasya ca didṛkṣayā |
ārādhayati yo viṣṇuṃ śāstrārthaṃ sa na budhyate ||
A person who worships Viṣṇu to obtain fame, to defeat enemies, and with the desire to see paradise does not understand the purpose of the scriptures.
atra tumun-pratyayasya.
Here the symmetry of the suffix tum[un], is broken (“with the desire” should be replaced by “to desire”).