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 4.92
यथा वा,
yathā vā,
This is another example of an implied sense arisen from the padāṃśa called kāla (time):
śrī-kṛṣṇa-padābjaṃ yaḥ sevitum icchet |
tasyāntara-vidyāṃ jānīhi vinaṣṭām ||
śrī-kṛṣṇa-pada-abjam—Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet; yaḥ—[he] who; sevitum—to serve; icchet—might desire; tasya—his; antara—inner; vidyām—magical spell; jānīhi—you should know; vinaṣṭām—had perished.
Know that if a person desires to serve Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, that person’s inner hex is gone.
atra pāda-sevanecchāyāḥ prāg eva vidyā-vināśo’bhavad iti vinaṣṭām iti bhūta-kālasya ca, kāle vihitasya kālatvam upacārāt.
In this verse, the past tense in vinaṣṭām (it is gone) suggests the following: The end of the evil spell took place before the desire to serve His feet occurred.
The notion that the suffix ordained in a particular time is the time is figurative.