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 11.49 [Anujñā]
76. Anujñā
दोषस्य प्रार्थनानुज्ञा तथैव गुण-वीक्षणात् ॥ ११.१२ab ॥
doṣasya prārthanānujñā tathaiva guṇa-vīkṣaṇāt || 11.12ab ||
When a person wishes for a bad occurrence because of perceiving a quality in it, that is anujñā (assent).