Dvyasrayakavya

Author(s): Satyapal Narang
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi

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Horses: I. 47.
निस्तन्द्र इचवले छेकैष्टी कमानेष्ठकारिभिः । âcâeag*fzgrsarai zafa sufqàæ : 11
Battle V. 33
Figures of Speech
gfafzzang gargfa sarafa i भूमि लौहितगङ्ग नु रक्तैः पञ्चनदं न्वभूत् ।।
Similar examples of Svabhāvokti are found in I. 38, 200 III. 15, 101, 128; IV. 36, 92; V. 51, 85; VI 78; VII. 33, 34 etc.
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Frequently similes and utprekṣās are mixed up in the poem which may be enlisted as the examples Sankara and Samsṛṣṭi. Rest of the figures of speech have no compound or mixture.
17. UPAMĀ: About three hundred similes have been used in the Dvyāśrayakāvya. Since the author had to illustrate his grammar in toto, it was necessary to adjust his examples through similes. Mostly upamanas are artificial. Having a marvellous worldly knowledge, Hemacandra adjusted his similes in such a way that it expressed the most befitting illustration in accordance with his poem. Thus his similes are deviated from the known sphere of society and life. Some of his similes are very apt in the clarification of the meaning of the idea.
Hemacandra opened a new chapter in the history of Sanskrit similes by the introduction of grammatical similes. Some of his grammatical similes explain the tedious rules of grammar in a simple style. Only one grammatical simile is found in the Bhaṭṭi-kāvya where as Hemacandra wrote about thirty such similes. Besides, mythological and geneological similes are found in profundity in the poem. A classificatiou