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Kāraṇamālā : Chained Cause
 
utter surprise that his wife Draupadi is being dragged by the lock of
her hair by Duryodhana, their rival, in the game of dice. The sen-
tence without pun in any word gives four different meanings in the
same context through a change of tone.
 
chichtuch Kāraka-dīpakam : Verbal Illuminator :
 
It is an uncommon and less known figure defined and illustrated
by Appayya Dikṣita only in his Kuvalayānanda. When a number of
actions of the same agent are bunched together, it is called
Kärakadipaka.
 
eg 1. śliṣyati kāmapi cumbati kāmapi kāmapi ramayati rāmām.
 
paśyati sasmita-caru-parāmaparām anugacchati vāmām.
 
श्रिष्यति कामपि चुम्बति कामपि कामपि रमयति रामाम् ।
 
पश्यति सस्मितचारुपरामपरामनुगच्छति वामाम् ॥
 
(Kṛṣṇa) embraces one cowherd maiden, kisses another,
He makes delighted some other,
 
He stares at another smiling beauty
 
And closely follows another charming and pretty.
 
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In this poem of Jayadeva's Gitagovinda, the behaviour of Kṛṣṇa,
the divine spouse of the devoted ladies of Vṛndāvana, through dif-
ferent actions like kissing, embracing or entertaining has been
described.
 
Definition
 
क्रमिकैकगतानां तु गुम्फः कारकदीपकम् । कु. ११७
 
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RUTHIH Kāraṇamalā : Chained Cause :
 
kāraṇa cause; mālā garland or chain; Kāraṇamālā as a figure of
speech occurs when a series of cause and effect is artistically
devised in a poetic expression. Here the poet wreaths a set of
objects of which each preceding one is presented as being the
cause of the succeeding one. Ruyyaka includes it under the group
śṛṇkhalā-bandha (serially arranged like a chain). All the definitions
 
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