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...

विषयैक्ये विरोधस् तु लौकिकाद् अन्यत्र नास्तीति मुनिना न सूत्रितम्. यथा,

viṣayaikye virodhas tu laukikād anyatra nāstīti muninā na sūtritam. yathā,

However, when the object (viṣaya) is the same, a contradictory rasa only occurs when the rasas are mundane, therefore Bharata Muni did not render this understanding into a sūtra. For instance:

mallānām aśanir nṛṇāṃ nara-varaḥ strīṇāṃ smaro mūrtimān
  gopānāṃ sva-jano’satāṃ kṣiti-bhujāṃ śāstā sva-pitroḥ śiśuḥ
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mṛtyur bhoja-pater virāḍ aviduṣāṃ tattvaṃ paraṃ yogināṃ
  vṛṣṇīnāṃ para-devateti vidito raṅgaṃ gataḥ sāgrajaḥ
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In the battle arena, Kṛṣṇa, who was accompanied by His elder brother, was perceived by the people there as follows: To the wrestlers He was a thunderbolt, to the men of Mathurā He was the best of men, to the women He was Cupid in person, to the cowherds He was their relative, to the unrighteous kings He was their punisher, to His parents He was their child, to Kaṃsa He was his own death, to ignorant people He was the Universal Form, to the yogīs He was the Absolute Truth, and to the Vṛṣṇis He was their topmost Deity. (Bhāgavatam 10.43.17)

atra sarve’pi rasā bhagavad-eka-viṣayā varṇyate.

In this verse, the Lord is the sole object of all the rasas which are described.

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