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by the desire of destroying his enemies. Now' showed the path of righteousness' is a funny way of saying that defeated . At any rate the suggested sense is mentioned here. In the suggested sense has got to be inferred from the apparent meanning.
The figure अतिशयोक्ति:
When with a view to describe the matter in hand in a picturesque way the poets takes recourse to some exaggeration, the figure is aff. The following are the kinds of अतिशयोक्ति.
(1) When the real difference between two things is deliberately concealed by identifying completely the two things. For instance in verse 567:
"Who is this moon, on earth, moon with no deer on it? Friend! cast your glance at the terrace above and just think for a while. This (strange) moon is followed by the birds in the garden with a desire to drink the nectar-moon that sheds a pure light as white as the ripe fruits of cast.
Here the king (in विद्धशालभञ्जिका ) has completely identified the face of a with the moon, though in reality there was a difference between them two. The verse 561 is an instance of the same kind of अतिशयोक्ति. The sanskrit rendering of the verse is as follows:
अयि देवर किं न प्रेक्षसे, आकाशं किं सुधा प्रलोकयसि । जायाया बाहुमूले अर्धचन्द्राणां परिपाटी ॥
'Why do you look at the sky for the moon unnecessarily? There is a line of cresent-shaped moons in the armpit of your wife.
Here the prints of nails are identified with the crescent-shaped moons.
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