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 10.120 [Yathā-saṅkhya]
22. Yathā-saṅkhya
यथा-सङ्ख्यं क्रमेणैव क्रमिकाणां समन्वयः ॥ १०.१०८cd ॥
yathā-saṅkhyaṃ krameṇaiva kramikāṇāṃ samanvayaḥ ||10.108cd||
yathā-saṅkhyam—the yathā-saṅkhya ornament (“in accordance with the number”); krameṇa—by the sequence; eva—only (or same); kramikāṇām—[of meanings[1] ] which are in sequence (“they have come from the sequence”); samanvayaḥ—the enumeration.
The yathā-saṅkhya ornament (parallelism) is the enumeration of meanings by the same sequence as the sequence of the corresponding words.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Kavikarṇapūra supplies the word vācakānām (of words) to Mammaṭa’s kramikānām: kramikāṇāṃ vācakānāṃ yathā-saṅkhyaṃ yady anvayas tadā yathā-saṅkhyam ity alaṅkāraḥ (Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 8.163). Paṇḍita-rāja Jagannātha’s definitionis: upadeśa-krameṇārthānāṃ sambandho yathā-saṅkhyam (Rasa-gaṅgādhara, KM p. 476). Nāgeśa Bhaṭṭa adds: sambandhe satīti śeṣaḥ (Marma-prakāśa).