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[P. 386. A. 6. S. 20.
In the verses 624-625 a woman is bending over a host of lotuses and her friends are not able to distinguish her from the lotuses. Hence the series of doubts:
Are these her eyes or petals of lotuses with bees perched on them? etc.
Here, obviously, metaphor is the figure on which this is based. In this case a decision is arrived at in the end.
But in 626 the doubt remains as it is; the basic figure is अतिशयोक्ति.
In 627 a doubt is raised: Is this king the sun? and then the decision is also stated: no, he can not be the Sun. Then the reason is given: he can not be be the Sun, for the sun travels with seven horses, while this king has only four horses for his chariot etc.
Here the basic figure is metaphor.
a is a figure when the subject in hand is concealed either by another subject in hand or by another thing (a).
In the verse 628 the tremor of the hand of Shiva is concealed by the cold felt by the touch of the Himalaya.
In the following verse the humming of the bees is denied by saying that it is the twanging of the cupid's bow (a subject not in hand i. e. gga).
a is based on resemblance and is expressed in a variety of ways. Verse 630 is an instance of this: af does not sit on the peacock but on the lotuselike eyes of the goddesses. The picturesque feathers of the peacock off are concealed by saying that they are (like) the beautiful eyes of the goddesses.
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