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...

वृत्ताव् अन्यत्र तत्र वा ।
नाम्नः स वृत्त्य्-अवृत्त्योश् च ॥ ९.८२bc ॥

vṛttāv anyatra tatra vā |
nāmnaḥ sa vṛtty-avṛttyoś ca || 9.82bc ||

vṛttau—in a compound; anyatra—elsewhere; tatra—in that (a compound); —or; nāmnaḥ—of a nominal base; saḥ—that (lāṭa); vṛtti-avṛttyoḥ—both in a compound and not in a compound; ca—and.

Lāṭa anuprāsa is also the repetition of a nominal base. Either both word bases are in the same compound, the word bases are in mutually different compounds, or one word base is in a compound while the other is not in a compound.

ekasmin samāse bhinne vā samāse samāsāsamāsayor vā nāmnaḥ prātipadikasya sārūpyaṃ sa lāṭānuprāsaḥ.

Lāṭa anuprāsa is the sameness of form of a nominal base, either in one compound, in different compounds, or both in a compound and not in a compound.

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