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GLOSSARY
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tadguṇa
tadguņa, 'having that thing's attribute': (1) a figure in which one thing is
said to assume the quality or property of another thing, from
which thereby it is made difficult to distinguish. (2) R 9.22-25. (3)
navadhautadhavalavasanāś candrikayā sāndrayā tirogamitāḥ । rama-
nabhavanāny aśañkam sarpanty abhisārikāḥ sapadi (Rudrata: "Hidden
by the thick moonlight, their garments white and newly washed,
the women approach fearlessly the homes of their lovers"). (4) "Half
a mile away across the young corn you saw her white sweater at
the cliff's edge, and it seemed part of the whiteness of the screaming
seabirds, of the whiteness of the awful glimpses of chalk where the
turf suddenly ended in air, of the crawling whiteness of the waves
far below" (Oliver Onions). (5) Rudrața considers two types: one
in which the indistinguishables in fact share the property which
makes them indistinguishable, and the other in which they do not
but where the property of one imposes itself upon that of the other.
This latter resembles pihita and seems to differ from it only in defini-
tion: here the pre-eminent quality lends itself to the other subject;
there, the pre-eminent quality hides the other.
Tadguņa differs from bhräntimat only as to the poetic end of the
confusion. Here, presumably, the end is not to compare, but to
portray the quality in a certain way. See note (5) to sambhāvyamā-
nårtha atiśayôkti: such subtle distinctions are necessarily subjective
and may not be entirely clear from the examples alone. See also
atadguna.
tulyayogitā
tulyayogitā, 'equal joining': (1) a figure in which several subjects sharing
a property or mode of action, though in unequal degrees, are re-
presented as equivalently endowed; the lesser subject is thus magni-
fied. (2) B 3.26 (27), D 2.330 (331-32), V 4.3.26, U 5.7, M 158. (3)
seso himagiris tvam ca mahanto guravaḥ sthiraḥ । yad alanghitama-
ryādāś calantīm bibhṛtha kṣitim (Bhāmaha: "The primeval serpent,
the Himalaya and you, O King, are weighty and firm; you three,
surpassing all limitation, support the unstable world"). (4) "... he
had the harmlessness of the serpent and the wisdom of the dove"
(Samuel Butler). (5) Tulyayogită functions as a comparison, but
the common property is predicated of the subject and object jointly.
Dandin also gives a type of upamā based upon the conjunction of
evident unequals. This figure can be subdivided as to its purpose
191
tadguṇa
tadguņa, 'having that thing's attribute': (1) a figure in which one thing is
said to assume the quality or property of another thing, from
which thereby it is made difficult to distinguish. (2) R 9.22-25. (3)
navadhautadhavalavasanāś candrikayā sāndrayā tirogamitāḥ । rama-
nabhavanāny aśañkam sarpanty abhisārikāḥ sapadi (Rudrata: "Hidden
by the thick moonlight, their garments white and newly washed,
the women approach fearlessly the homes of their lovers"). (4) "Half
a mile away across the young corn you saw her white sweater at
the cliff's edge, and it seemed part of the whiteness of the screaming
seabirds, of the whiteness of the awful glimpses of chalk where the
turf suddenly ended in air, of the crawling whiteness of the waves
far below" (Oliver Onions). (5) Rudrața considers two types: one
in which the indistinguishables in fact share the property which
makes them indistinguishable, and the other in which they do not
but where the property of one imposes itself upon that of the other.
This latter resembles pihita and seems to differ from it only in defini-
tion: here the pre-eminent quality lends itself to the other subject;
there, the pre-eminent quality hides the other.
Tadguņa differs from bhräntimat only as to the poetic end of the
confusion. Here, presumably, the end is not to compare, but to
portray the quality in a certain way. See note (5) to sambhāvyamā-
nårtha atiśayôkti: such subtle distinctions are necessarily subjective
and may not be entirely clear from the examples alone. See also
atadguna.
tulyayogitā
tulyayogitā, 'equal joining': (1) a figure in which several subjects sharing
a property or mode of action, though in unequal degrees, are re-
presented as equivalently endowed; the lesser subject is thus magni-
fied. (2) B 3.26 (27), D 2.330 (331-32), V 4.3.26, U 5.7, M 158. (3)
seso himagiris tvam ca mahanto guravaḥ sthiraḥ । yad alanghitama-
ryādāś calantīm bibhṛtha kṣitim (Bhāmaha: "The primeval serpent,
the Himalaya and you, O King, are weighty and firm; you three,
surpassing all limitation, support the unstable world"). (4) "... he
had the harmlessness of the serpent and the wisdom of the dove"
(Samuel Butler). (5) Tulyayogită functions as a comparison, but
the common property is predicated of the subject and object jointly.
Dandin also gives a type of upamā based upon the conjunction of
evident unequals. This figure can be subdivided as to its purpose