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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
 
kalindajā-tīra-ruhāḥ syāmalāḥ sarala-drumāḥ.
कलिन्दजा - तीररुहा: श्यामला: सरलद्रुमाः ।
 
The trees growing on the bank of the Kalindi river
Are green and straight for ever.
 
Definitions
 
प्रौढ़ोक्तिस्तदशक्तस्य तच्छक्तत्वावकल्पनम् । च. ५.४५
प्रौढ़ोत्किरुत्कर्षहेतौ तद्धेतुत्वप्रकल्पनम् । कु. ६३.१२५
 
कस्मिंश्चिदर्थे किञ्चिद्धर्मकृतातिशयप्रतिपिपादयिषया प्रसिद्धतद्धर्मवता
संसर्गस्योद्भावनं प्रौढोक्तिः । र. २
 
fufa: Bhanitiḥ: Artful diction :
 
The word bhaniti (√bhan to speak ti <ktin) literally means speech,
expression, statement, saying etc. As a figure of sppech Bhaṇiti consists
of a special mode of expression. It is only Bhoja who has recog-
nised some uncommon figures and Bhaniti is one of them. It is to
be noted here that Kuntaka has used the term bhaniti in a very wide
sense along with vakrokti which is defined as vaidagdhya-bhangi-
bhaniti ie stylistic mode of expression. According to him, all vari-
eties of figures of speech, riti or mārga (literary style or technique)
and dhvani (suggestion) are but different forms of vakrokti. Here
Bhaniti, according to Bhoja, implies beauty of expression, but its
scope has been restricted to an ordinary figure only.
 
eg 1. ābharanasyābharaṇam praśādhanavidheḥ prasādhana-višeṣaḥ
upamānasyāpi sakhe pratyupamānam vapus tasyāḥ.
आभरणस्याभरणं प्रसाधनविधेः प्रसाधनविशेषः ।
उपमानस्यापि सखे प्रत्युपमानं वपुस्तस्याः ॥
 
O friend, she has a charming figure-
The decoration of all decor,
 
An extra-ordinary fashion of all fashions
The finest standard of all comparisons.
 
2. praṇamatyunnati-hetor jivita-hetor vimuñcati prāṇā
duḥkhiyati sukha-hetoḥ ko muḍhaḥ sevakādanyaḥ.
 
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