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which all suffering is assuaged"). (4) "Christ, whose Glory fills
the Skies, Christ, the true, the only Light" (Charles Wesley). (5)
The point is not that the metaphor is uncompounded (cf. asamasta),
but that the image coined by the metaphor is not extended by other
metaphors or metaphorical usages dependent in some way upon
that first metaphor.

GLOSSARY

This is the type par excellence of niravayava metaphor; according
to Rudraţa, mālā, rašanā, and paramparita are variously defined
combinations of suddha rūpakas. All are called niravayava ('lacking
members') for this reason. See these terms.

ślişta, 'punned': (1) a rūpaka to which certain descriptive qualifications
are appended which are to be taken differently for each of the two
terms of the metaphor. (2) D 2.87, M 145. (3) rājahamsôpabhoga-
rham bhramaraprarthyasaurabham । sakhi vaktrâmbujam idam tava
(Dandin; for the lotus, "swan-enjoyed" and "bee-beloved"; for the
face, "king-enjoyed" and "suitor-beloved": "Friend, the lotus of
your face is worthy of being enjoyed by the Great King [the swan]
and so sweet as to attract a lover [bee]"). (4) "A Woman is a book,
and often found / To prove far better in the Sheets than bound: /
No marvel then why men take such delight / Above all things to
study in the night" (Anon.). (5) Mammața takes ślișța to be a category
in the determination of paramparita rūpaka, along with mālā. There
is no clear reason why puns may not serve in other metaphors as
well.

sakala, "whole': (1) same as samastavastuvişaya. (2) D 2.70 (69).
samkīrṇa, 'mixed': (1) a complex rūpaka in which a principal subject

and several of its aspects are metaphorically identified with objects
having no mutual relation. (2) R 8.52-55. (3) lakṣmīs tvam mukham
indur nayane nilôtpale karau kamale । keśaḥ kekikalāpo daśanā api
kundakalikās te (Rudrata: "You are Lakşmi; your face is the moon,
your eyes, blue lotuses, your hands, white lotuses, your tresses, a
peacock's tail, and your teeth, jasmine buds"). (4) "One man is a
living soul, but two men are an india rubber milking machine for a
beer engine, and three men are noses off and four men are an asylum
for cretins and five men are a committee and twenty-five are a meeting
and after that you get to the mummy house at the British Museum,
and the Sovereign People and Common Humanity and the Average
and the Public and the Majority and the Life Force and Statistics
and the Economic Man brainless, eyeless, wicked spawn of the
universal toad sitting in the black bloody ditch of eternal night and

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