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Now take the verse स्वयंच पल्लवाताम्र etc. (487). This verse describes . The goddess is like the morning twilight which shines with the rays of the sun as red as the new leaves, and which gives the desired fruit of wakefulness to all.
is also one that shines with her red and bright hands and is one that confers desired object (which is difficult to obtain ++19 ).
What figure is there in the above-mentioned verse? The first answer of to this is it is a mixture of श्लेष and उपमा. Without श्लेष, उपमा can not stand in this verse.
But on second consideration, says that the figure in this verse is 39 alone.
For 3 does not occur only when there is any resemblance as regards common quality or common action. It may arise even when resemblance is merely verbal.
If in such instances ( such as स्वयं च पलवा. ) only श्लेष is admitted, quifq will have no place at all. On the other hand, if resemblance of g and far is taken as the criterion of उपमा, then अर्थश्लेष ( with उपमा suggested in it as in : etc.) will have no place.
When, therefore, in the same verse both 394 and श्लेष occur, preference should be given to उपमा.
We should not have any rigid difference like the following:
"When a figure is based on the resemblance of गुण and क्रिया it is उपमा; and when there is merely a verbal resemblance it is ."
In fact even a verbal resemblance may give rise to उपमा.
But it may be asked "what, then, is the province of "? To this 's answer is as follows:
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