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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
 
रात्रिर्गमिष्यति भविष्यति सुप्रभातम्
भास्वानुदेष्यति हसिष्यति पंकजश्रीः ।
Frei fafanufa anteria faz
 
हा हन्त हन्त नलिनीं गज उज्जहारः ॥
 
Night will pass away, dawn will file,
 
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The sun will rise, beauty of the lotuses will smile -
Thinking thus the bee waited inside the lotus
While the elephant ate it up, Oh alas!
 
Definitions
 
इष्यमाणविरुद्धार्थसम्प्राप्तिस्तु विषादनम् । च. ५४८
इष्यमाणविरुद्धार्थप्राप्तिस्तु विषादनम् । कु. ६८.१३२
अभीष्टार्थविरुद्धलाभो विषादनम् । र. २
 
af: Vyatirekaḥ : Dissimilitude :
 
The word vyatireka (vi ati fric a < ghañ) denotes contrast, difference
or distinction. As a figure of speech Vyatireka brings the idea of con-
trast or dissimilitude of similar objects compared to each other in
some respect. Here the contrast lies in the fact that the object of
comparison (ie upameya) is represented as superior or inferior to
the standard of comparison (ie upamāna).
 
The cause of such excellence or defeciency of the subject in
hand may be explicitly stated by words of comparison (like iva,
yathā) or expressed by sense through words of similitude. (like
tulya, samāna, samkāśa)
 
Here the superiority of one or inferiority of the other may be
clearly expressed or suggested through the application of one qual-
ity or qualities or by some opposite quality or qualities. In such fig-
urative statement, excellence or defeciency is not factual but
purely based on poetic fancy.
 
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According to Daṇḍin, plain contrast or dissimilitude between
two objects is the basic concept of this alamkāra. Bhāmaha called it
viseșa-nidarśana or exhibition of some special distinciton. Bhoja also says
that some sort of difference between two similar objects is poeti-
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