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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
 
समाधि: Samādhih : Felicitation :
 
Samādhi (sam ā √dhā ki) is otherwise called Samāhitā (sam ā dhā ta <
kta). As a figure Samadhi denotes well accomplishment of something.
When an act scheduled to be accomplished by the doer through
proper means is accidentally accomplished by another through
some other suitable expedient, the figure is called Samadhi. In such
rhetorical statement, the common cause for the operation does
not come as a help, but some other uncertain cause happens to
accomplish the desired action by chance without the help or desire
of any effort from the part of the doer. In Samadhi, we find the
ascription of one's property upon another or through poetic
imagery one's property is superimposed on the other.
 
eg 1.
 
mānam asyā nirākartum/pādayor me patisyatah
upakārāy diṣṭyedam / udīrṇam ghangarjitam.
 
मानमस्या निराकर्तुं / पादयोर्मे पतिष्यतः ।
उपकाराय दिष्ट्येदम् / उदीर्णं घनगर्जितम् ॥
 
In order to remove her
 
anger
As I knelt down on her feet
 
Then it was for my favour
 
That the rumbling clouds began to thunder.
 
Definitions
 
किञ्चिदारभमाणस्य कार्यं दैववशात् पुनः ।
तत्साधनसमापत्तिर्या तदाहुः समाहितम् ॥ का. २.२९८
रसभावतदाभासवृत्तैः प्रशमबन्धनम् ।
 
अन्यानुभावनिःशून्यरूपं यत्तत्सामहितम् । अ. सं १४
यत्सादृश्यं तत्सम्पत्तिः समाहितम् । का. सू. ४.३.२९
कार्यारम्भे सहायातिर्दैवादैवकृतेह या ।
 
आकस्मिकी बुद्धिपूर्वोभयी वा तत् समाहितम् ॥ स. ३.३४
कारणान्तरसम्पत्तिर्देवादारम्भ एव हि ।
 
यत्र कार्यस्य जायते तज्जायेत समाहितम् ॥ वा. ४.११०
कार्यमारभमाणस्य दैवादुपायसंपत्तिः समाहितम् । वा. का. ३
आरब्धानुकूलाऽकस्मिकसहकारिलाभः समाहितम् । अ. शे. ४.४
 
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