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 10.24
भिन्ने यथा,
bhinne yathā,
This is an example of rasanopamā where the common attribute is always different:
vapur iva madhuraṃ rūpaṃ rūpam ivānanda-dāyi guṇa-vṛndam |
guṇa-vṛndam iva viśuddhaṃ yaśaḥ kṛśāṅgī-sabhāsu tava rādhe ||
O Rādhā, Your form is sweet like Your body, Your qualities give bliss like Your form, and Your fame in the assembly of slender young women is pure like Your qualities. (Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 8.47)