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Where the standard of comparison i. e. 39412 is an imaginary thing, the figure is 3E9ITTTAI, for the poet here conceives a new thing and then uses it as a standard of comparison.
Verse 525 is an instance of this.
This contains a description of the attire of Lord Krishna when he is starting for हस्तिनापुर. * If in the sky there will be two streams of the waters of the celestical river (the milky way ) flowing seperately, then alone the chest of Lord Krishna, dark as the Tainal tree and decked with a long necklace of pearls, can be compared to it ( i. e. the sky ).
Verse 526 is another instance of उत्पाद्योपमा or कल्पितोपमा. Here however the 39412 is not conceived anew by the poet, but the 3172 is arranged in such a way as would suit the उपमान.
The verse contains a description of 2.773 the Goddess wlio attended the marriage ceremony of Shiva and Parvati.
rast followed other women who were as resplendent as gold. She was decked with the skulls of men. She, therefore, appeared like a row of dark clouds which is accompanied by female cranes and before which is stretched a long band of lightening.
Here if it would have been mere Kali she would not have been compared to a row of clouds with cranes and with a band of lightening ahead of it. In order to suit this 39417, therefore, the 392 it is properly arranged or conceived accordingly.
These and such other minor varieties of simile, if defined and illustrated exhaustively, would needlessly increase the bulk of this volume, as 955 says; there is therefore, no seperate treatment of these varieties here.
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