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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
An example of the thing being a concrete noun substantive is: -
Her eyes, large and luscious, captivate the heart as though they are lotuses.
Here the lady's eyes are the subject of the Poetical Fancy, and are imagined to be acting in the character of a concrete thing, a noun substantive, lotuses.
[OCTOBER, 1894.
An example of the thing being a quality is the following: -
His virtues, occasioning as they did other virtues, were, as it were, generative.
Here the hero's virtues are the subject of the Poetical Fancy, and they are imagined to possess the adjectival quality of generativeness.
An example of the thing being an action:
In my dreams the night passed happily, as though I were sleeping in my beloved's arms.
Here the subject of the Poetical Fancy is the manner of passing the night, and it is magined to be acting in the character of the verbal action of sleeping in the arms of the beloved.
This Poetical Fancy depending on a thing (vastútprékshá) is further divided into two classes, according as the ground or occasion (aspada or vishaya) for the fancy is or is not mentioned. In the first case the Poetical Fancy is called uktáspadavastútprékshá, or uktavishayá vastútprékshá. In the latter case it is called anuktaspadavastút prekshá, or anuktavishaya vartályrékahd
An example of the ground for the Poetical Fancy being mentioned is the verse already given :
Her eyes, large and luscious, captivate the heart as though they were lotuses.
Here the ground for imagining the eyes to be acting in the character of lotuses is that they are large and luscious and captivate the heart. This is mentioned.
Again :
The spots shine beauteous on the moon, as though they were bees upon a lotus in the sky.
Here the spots on the moon are imagined to be acting in the character of bees on a lotus, and the ground for the imagination, viz., that, being spots on a white surface, they are nevertheless still charming, is stated.
Again :
The ornament of Krishna's ear, being shaped like a makara, is beautiful as though it were the standard of the God of Love projecting from the gateway of the castle of Krishna's heart.
Here the ornament is imagined to be acting in the character of the standard of the God of Love. And the ground for the imagination, its being shaped like a makara (the standard of the God of Love is also a makara), is stated.
An example of a Poetical Fancy depending on a thing, in which the occasion is not expressed, is the following:
The face of the deer-eyed one gladdens the heart as if it were another full moon.
The grounds for fancying the lady's face to possess the characteristics of a full moon (viz., its peculiar fairness, roundness, etc.), are not mentioned.
Again :
Aloes and incense caused as it were a thick night.
Here the occasion of the Poetical Fancy, the smoke arising from the incense, is not mentioned.
As the Sahitya-darpaṇa remarks, in a Poetical Fancy depending upon a Cause or upon an Effect, the occasion must always, as a matter of course, be mentioned. For if the occasion, for instance, in the example immediately following, viz., 'holding deep silence,' be not mentioned, the sentence would be unconnected, or absurd.
