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यथासंख्यम् Yathāsaṃkhyam : Relative Order :
 
Yathāsaṃkhya literally means description of something in a relative order.
Rhetorically it occurs when a reference about some object is poeti-
cally given in a methodical order or sequence. This figure is other-
wise termed Saṃkhyāna or Krama by some scholars.
 
The salient features of this alaṃkāra are as follows:
(i) there is a reference to two or more objects,
(ii) these objects are ideally set in a proper sequence (ie one
after another),
(iii) the contextual and the non-contextual (ie the upameya
and the upamāna or the prastuta and the aprastuta) are
given in a definite order,
(iv) either some words or ideas are put in a proper order,
(v) some ideas are connected together in such a sequence
that the entire meaning of the statement becomes
revealed in the order of one idea focussing the another
in the given order.
 
eg 1. śatruṃ mitraṃ dviṣat pakṣaṃ
jaya ranjaya bhañjaya.
शत्रुं मित्रं द्विषत्पक्षं / जय रंजय भंजय ।
Your foes, your friends, your enemies--
You conquer, you satisfy, you subsidize.
 
Definitions
 
भूयसामुपदिष्टानां निर्देश:शः क्रमशस्तथा ॥
यथासंख्यमिति प्रोक्तमलंकारं पुरातनैः ॥ वि. १४.११.१२
उद्दिष्टानां पदार्थानामनूद्देशो यथाक्रमम् ।
यथासंख्यमिति प्रोक्तं संख्यानं क्रम इत्यपि ॥ का 2-273
भूयसामुपदिष्टानामर्थानामसधर्मणाम् ।
क्रमशो योऽनुनिर्देशो यथासंख्यं तदुच्यते ॥ का. सं. ३।२
उपमानोपमेयानां क्रमसंबन्धः क्रमः । का. सू. ४।३।१७
निर्दिश्यन्ते यस्मिन्नर्था विविधा ययैव परिपाट्या ।
पुनरपि तत्प्रतिबद्धास्तयैव तत्स्याद् यथासंख्यम् ॥ रु. का. ७.३४