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**Appendix-10 Similes and Illustrations**
Anything that is explained through a simile or illustration becomes easily understandable. Similes add beauty, fluency and uniqueness to literature. Similes are the ornaments of poetry. The author has explained even the most difficult subjects in a simple and fluent manner through similes. Some similes are so simple and written in such a fluent language that their meaning is understood as soon as they are read.
Some similes also give us an idea of the culture, country, time and environment of that time. Illustrations have also been used extensively like similes. Here only the similes and illustrations of Pindaniya are compiled.
* **Where the cause is a thread, the effects are like a net.** (Ga. 49/1)
* **Where the cause is a seed, the effect is always the same.** (Ga. 49/2)
* **Like a burning ember in another's hand, it does not burn.** (Ga. 68/2)
* **Like a delicious food that is not eaten, even if it is well-cooked.** (Ga. 85)
* **Like a bad smell that spreads, like a bad taste that is not eaten.** (Ga. 92)
* **Like a cow that is tied up, it should be treated like a cow.** (Ga. 96)
* **Like a poisonous snake that bites, it dies by eating its own poison.** (Ga. 123)
* **Like a ghee lamp that is lit.** (Ga. 177/2)
* **Like a small thing that becomes big.** (Ga. 179/1)
* **Like a very strong rope.** (Ga. 208/1)
* **Like curdled milk that is not ripe, it is ripe and unripe.** (Ga. 293)
* **Like the purpose of a thing, like the purpose of fuel for fire.** (Ga. 302/1)
* **Like a burning ember, it quickly burns the fuel of the feet.** (Ga. 314/2)
* **Like a burning ember, it does not burn until it is extinguished.** (Ga. 314/3)