Glossary of Indian Figures of Speech /99

atadguṇa
 

 
atadguṇa, 'not having that thing's attribute': (1) a figure in which two

things or states remain distinguishable in spite of the likelihood or

the appropriateness of the one's dominant quality imposing itself

upon the other. (2) M 205. (3) dhavalo'si jahavi sundara tahavi tue

majjha ranñjiam hiaam । räāabharie vi hiae suaha nihitto nṇihitto ṇa ratto'si

(Mammața: "Though you are pale, lover, my heart is made bright

by you; though you have entered my heart full of passion [redness],

you are not enamored [red]"). (4) "Cold-blooded, though with red

your blood be graced" (Leigh Hunt). (5) This is an expected tadguṇa

which fails to take place. It differs from nānātva atiśayôkti in that

there one thing is said to be twofold, while here two things are said

to be twofold; only our expectation of unity is multiplied, not the
thing itself.
 

thing itself.
Very few figures involve in their definition an element of expecta-

tion, though most in some way exploit it.
 
atisaya
 

 
atiśaya
 
atiśaya, 'excess': (1) one of the four general categories into which
arthå
arthâlamkāra are grouped. (2) R 7.9, 9.1 (5) See śleşa; cf. väāstava,
aupamya.
 
atiśayokti
 

aupamya.
 
atiśayôkti, *
 
atiśayôkti, 'expression involving an exaggeration': (1) the exaggeration

of a quality or attribute in a characteristic way, so as to suggest

pre-eminence in its subject; hyperbole. (2) B 2.81-85, D 2.214-20,

V 4.3.10, U 2.11, AP 344.26, M 153. (3) mallikāmālabhāriṇyaḥ

sarvanginâñgīṇârdracandanāḥ । kṣaumavatyo na lakşyante jyotsnäyām
yām
abhisārikāḥ (Daṇḍin; the whiteness of the girls' dresses is exaggerated