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 10.218 [Smaraṇa]
53. Smaraṇa
यथानुभवम् अर्थस्य दृष्टे तत्-सदृशे स्मृतिः । स्मरणम् ॥ १०.१३२abc ॥
yathānubhavam arthasya dṛṣṭe tat-sadṛśe smṛtiḥ | smaraṇam || 10.132abc ||
yathā-anubhavam—in accordance with the experience (lit. “without going beyond a normal experience,” i.e. no imagination is involved); arthasya—of a thing; dṛṣṭe—is seen; tat-sadṛśe—when what is similar to that; smṛtiḥ—the remembrance; smaraṇam—the ornament called smaraṇa.
When there is a remembrance of a thing by seeing something similar to it in such a way that it is a normal experience, that is smaraṇa (remembrance).
sadṛśa-vastu-darśanena pūrvānubhūtasya tathaiva pratisandhānaṃ smaraṇam.
Smaraṇa is the recollection, by seeing a similar thing, of a previously experienced thing in the same way it was.