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 10.196 [Asaṅgati]
46. Asaṅgati
भिन्न-देशतयात्यन्तं कार्य-कारण-भूतयोः ।
युगपद् धर्मयोर् यत्र ख्यातिः सा स्याद् असङ्गतिः ॥ १०.१२४ ॥
bhinna-deśatayātyantaṃ kārya-kāraṇa-bhūtayoḥ |
yugapad dharmayor yatra khyātiḥ sā syād asaṅgatiḥ ||10.124||
bhinna-deśatayā—by being those whose places are different; atyantam—in such a way that there is excessiveness; kārya—an effect; kāraṇa—and the cause; bhūtayoḥ—which are; yugapat—simultaneous; dharmayoḥ—of two attributes; yatra—when; khyātiḥ—the mention; sā—that; syāt—is; asaṅgatiḥ—the ornament called asaṅgati (“no connection”).
When two attributes related by cause and effect occur at the same time in different locations, that is asaṅgati (dislocated cause and effect).
kārya-kāraṇayor eka-deśatvaṃ hi khyātam. yathāgni-dhūmayoḥ. yatra tathā-bhūtayor api dharmayor bhinna-deśatayā yugapad avabhāsaḥ sā asaṅgatiḥ.
It is well known that a cause and its effect occur in the same place. An example is fire and smoke. When two attributes which are a cause and its effect seem to occur simultaneously in different places, that is asaṅgati.