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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
निर्मातुं प्रभवेन् मनोहरमिदं रूपं पुराणो मुनिः ॥
Was it God, the creator, who created her!
Was it moon, the beauty-bestower!
Was it Cupid himself, Love incarnate!
Or the month of spring to rejuvenate!
How could it be the ancient saint,
The bookful blockhead, turned indifferent
—
--To all mundane pleasure,
Who can create such a beautiful figure!
Here the poet fancifully observes various alternatives about the
creation of the perfectly beautiful figure of the heroine. He thinks
over different alternatives-
Who can create such a beautiful fi
God of love) or the month of spring
Here the
have created the feminine figure. According to the scrip
supreme God creates all things of the unive
creation of
over different alternatives – the creator, the moon, Madana (the
God of love) or the month of spring out of these someone must
have created the feminine figure. According to the scriptures, the
supreme God creates all things of the universe; but to the present
poet, this God cannot be able to create such an exquisite beauty
because he is devoid of all romantic feelings about the things of
beauty, specially the beauty of the human feminine, due to his
close association with st
objects of worldly enjoyment.
This figurative statement is a case of negation of mutual rela-
tion though there is relation.
Definitions
प्रोक्ता चातिशयोक्तिस्तु ह्यतुलैरुपमागुणै। वि. १४.१०
विवक्षा या विशेषस्य लोकसीमातिवर्तिनी ।
असावतिशयोक्तिः स्यादलंकारोत्तमा यथा ॥ का. २|२१४
निमित्ततो वचो यत्तु लोकातिक्रान्तगोचरम् ।
मन्यतेऽतिशयोक्तिं तामलंकारतया यथा ॥ भा. का. २.८१
निमित्ततो यत्तु वचो लोकातिक्रान्तगोचरम् ।
मत्यन्तेऽतिशयोक्तिं तामलंकारतया बुघाः ॥ अ.सं. ३४
संभाव्यधर्मतदुत्कर्षकल्पनातिशयोक्तिः । का. सू. ४.३.२०
लोकसीमानिवृत्तस्य वस्तुधर्मस्य कीर्तनम् ।
भवेदतिशयो नाम ॥ अ. ३४४|२४
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