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 10.159
महतां चोपलक्षणम् ॥ १०.११५d ॥
mahatāṃ copalakṣaṇam || 10.115d ||
mahatām—of the greats; ca—also; upalakṣaṇam—the secondari-ness.[1]
When the deed of a great personality is a subsidiary aspect of the contextual topic, that is another variety of udātta (exalted).
yatra pradhānam apy aṅgatāṃ gacchati tad apy udāttam.
When an important element becomes secondary, that too is udātta.