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 11.41 [Praharṣaṇa]
73. Praharṣaṇa
वाञ्छिताद् अधिकस्याप्तौ प्रहर्षणम् उदीरितम् ॥ ११.१०ab ॥
vāñchitād adhikasyāptau praharṣaṇam udīritam || 11.10ab ||
When a person obtains more than what he or she desired, that is called praharṣaṇa (great joy).
Commentary:
The obtainment is effortlessly achieved.[1] Praharṣaṇa is the opposite of the variety of viṣama where an endeavor becomes useless and a reverse, unwanted result occurs (10.203).