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 10.215 [Ekāvalī]
52. Ekāvalī
स्थाप्यतेऽपोह्यते वापि यथा-पूर्वं परं परम् ।
विशेषणतया यत्र वस्तु सैकावली द्विधा ||10।131||
sthāpyate'pohyate vāpi yathā-pūrvaṃ paraṃ param |
viśeṣaṇatayā yatra vastu saikāvalī dvidhā ||10.131||
sthāpyate—is established; apohate—denied; vā—or; api—also; yathā-pūrvam—with regard to each previous one; param param—each next thing;viśeṣaṇatayā—as a characteristic; yatra—in which; vastu—a thing; sā—that; ekāvalī—the ornament called ekāvalī (“one series” or “necklace”); dvidhā—twofold.
If each next thing is depicted, either affirmatively or negatively, as a characteristic of the preceding thing, that is ekāvalī (modified series), thus it has two varieties.
pūrvaṃ pūrvaṃ prati yad uttarasya vastuno viśeṣaṇatayā sthāpanaṃ khaṇḍanaṃ vā sā dvidhaikāvalī. (The translation of this was incorporated above.)