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llustration of this rule is cited here from the Hanumannāṭaka (V. 4). Here, Rama, filled with sorrow at separation from Sita, addresses the Aśoka tree by pointing out several common attributes that both he and the tree share except that while Rama is Sašoka i.e., full of grief, the tree is by name Aśoka, i.e., without grief. By way of a comment on this verse, Hemachandra adapts a single line from the Dhvanyaloka, where this verse is cited to illustrate the same point but with a detailed discussion following it in the Vrtti. Thus, it is pointed out by Anandavardhana that the double enténdré employed in the above verse is abandoned half-way in the third line with a view to making place for the figure Vyatireka. Hence it is helpful to the sentiment of love-in-separation. Hemachandra adopts only this much by substituting Vipralambhopakari for Visesam puṣṇāti. It is to be noted here that Anandavardhana mentions mixed figures by compounding the two names, e.g. Upama Śleṣa, Śleṣavyati reka etc. Such seperable figures usually go by the name of Sansrsti, whereas inseperable figures are designated by the name of Sankara. Incidentally, Rudrata and Namisādhu approve of the method of compounding the names of the figures. Anandavardhana seems to follow this lead.
But, in the next verse, cited from Rajasekhara's Balaramayaṇa, King Janaka denounces Ravaṇa who had offered himself as a suitor. In the first three lines, Janaka ponders over the excellent qualities of Ravana which may surely make him a Dharmavira, if taken without the fourth line. But all his qualities which make him a good bridegroom are abruptly spurned because he is Ravana and the quality of being a Ravaṇa, harasser of the world, cancells out all the other qualities at once and makes him fit to be condemned once and for all. In the first half of the fourth line, Janaka wishes that he were not Ravana and implies that he is utterly unworthy of any regard., for, the name Ravana is contemptible. But still he wonders in the last half-line: "Could all merits be found in one place?" This last half-line is ill-suited and out of place
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