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GLOSSARY
 
(4) "No, no, for my Virginity, / When I lose that, says Rose, I'll
dye: Behind the Elmes, last Night, cry'd Dick, / Rose, were you
not extremely Sick?" (Matthew Prior). (5) Dandin uses the term
vṛtta ('occurred'). Compare vakṣyamāna and vartamāna, where the
facts are about to occur or are occurring.
 
prasiddha, 'established', 'well known': (1) a type of akşepa in which the
question takes the form of an objection to a conventional or well-
known fact. (2) R 8.89 (90). (3) janayati samtāpam asau candraka-
lākomalâpi me citram । athavā kim atra citram dahati himānī hi
bhūmiruhaḥ (Rudrața; during the separation of lovers, it is conven-
tional to speak of the "burning" moon: "It is marvellous that the
soft-rayed moon causes such a fever; yet perhaps it is not so odd:
do not the winter snows consume all things that grow on earth!").
(4) **You a Magistrate chief', his wife tauntingly said, / 'You a
Methodist-Teacher! and caught with your Maid! / A delicate Text
you've chosen to handle / And fine holding forth, without Daylight
or Candle!" / Quoth Gabriel, 'My Dear, as I hope for Salvation,
/ You make in your Änger a wrong Application; / This evening I
taught how frail our Condition; / And the good Maid and I were but
at-Repetition" (Anon.). (5) Both examples offer a rationale which
attempts to meet the objection. This rationale is based upon the
situation objected to being well known; compare viruddha akşepa,
where the question takes the form of exposing an irrational im-
possibility. By "well known", drața refers to the character of
certain situations which, though unlikely (the moon burning, a
Methodist fornicating), are not entirely unexpected when they do
occur. Most caricatures depend upon this basic plausibility of
the conventionally implausible. Prasiddha resembles ukta ākṣepa,
but the emphasis is modal, not temporal.
 
bhavisyat, 'about to be': (1) same as vakşyamāna ākṣepa. (2) D 2.126 (125).
vakṣyamāna, 'about to be spoken': (1) a type of ākṣepa in which the state
 
of affairs denied or questioned has not yet occurred. (2) B 2.67
(69), D 2.126 (125), U 2.2-3, M 161. (3) satyam bravimi na tvam
mām drastum vallabha lapsyase । anyacumbanasamkrāntalākşâraktena
cakşuşă (Daṇḍin; a threat designed to prevent a state of affairs:
"I'm telling you the truth. You'll not be able to see me, lover,
with eyes red from the lac of others' lips!"). (4) "You like words
like damn and hell now, don't you?" I said I reckoned so. 'Well,
I don't,' said Uncle Jack, 'not unless there's extreme provocation
connected with 'em.... Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around