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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
विपर्ययोऽवरोह: । रूपधर्माभ्यामित्येव ।
After citing the gatha he remarks : अत्रानेकेषां शशि-प्रभृतीनां स्वरूपलाघवक्रमः | "The moon is smaller then the sun, the fire is smaller than the moon, the lamp than the fire, the fire-fly is smaller than even the lamp -".
125. Sobhākara cites this gatha to illustrate the figure Atiśaya, newly added by him.
He defines it as follows: सम्भावनयान्यथा वातिशयोऽतिशयः । After citing the gatha he comments upon it as follows: 37 ECHT सम्भवसम्भावनस्यातिशयितत्वे यदि जन्माभावं न करोषि तत्प्रेमाभावं कुर्वित्यादिना प्रेमाभावादिसम्भवस्यातिशय 349 1 - Ļ. 984.
126. Sobhākara cites this gātha as an example of the figure Atibaya
(Asambhāvanayā). After citing it he comments upon it as follows: 37 UCHI SAHURY HT- RTY: 1 - . 984.
127. This gātha is already dealt with; vide ŚP S. No. (307.106) supra.
Sobhākara cites it here as an example of the figure Atisaya. He thus comments
on it: gruret foUCITHSHI GT trud guldreffit-fareta: 1 - . 984. 128. Sobhākara illustrates the figure śrnkhalā by citing this gātha. He-thus comments
on the gātha:
अत्र क्रमेण शैल-जलधरादीनामाश्रयाश्रयिभाव उपमानत्वेनोपात्त: । - पृ. १६६. 129. This gātha is already dealt with; vide ŚP S. No. (180.78) supra. Sobhākara
cites it as an example of the figure Srnkhală and adds the comment; 347TRITRE
1195479: - . 9€€. 130. Śobhākara cites this gāthā as an example of the figure Šộnkhalā, and adds the
following comment : 3FTRITT ISTI - The thunderbolt strikes the mountains, the mountains with their rocks hurtling down strike the earth and the earth, in its thurn, strikes the hoods of Seșa.
131. Sobhākara cites this gāthā as an example of Śmkhalā and adds the comment :
377 TRIRRITER1CHCH The gātha poet says: “As a young man playing childish games makes people laugh, even so an old man indulging in the amorous sports
