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suffix added to f$, according to HS. VIII.2.159.fgus thus standsfor हृदयवत् and हियाली for हृदयवती (that is to say, गाथा). हृदयवती (गाथा) means a sta nza which has a heart i.e. a second, hidden meaning, under.. lying the literal, apparent, sense, and which thereby puzzles the reader and poses a problem before him in the matter of finding out the hidden sense. हियाली (हृदयवती गाथा) therefore means a riddle, an enigma. It corresponds in sense, if not in phonetic form, to TERCAT, which also has a covert meaning behind its apparent sense. प्रहेलिका is defined as : व्यक्तीकृत्य कमध्यर्थ स्वरूपार्थस्य गोपनात् । यत्र बाह्यान्तरावर्थों
eta al por 11 (facuyanoga). DE 37 is the apparent, obvious sense and corresponds to 97678# in the above-given definition of Halil, while 3717777 37* corresponds to the subtle, hidden sense, the 1969pt in the above given definition. Rudrata in his Kāvyā. amkara V. 25 says that प्रहेलिका is either स्पष्टप्रच्छन्नार्थी or अव्याहृताथी. The former is that variety where the subtle sense is of course expresse ed by the words themselves (because of their double meanings), . but is rather hidden i.e. cannot be easily made out unless and until the second meaning of the words is understood. The latter is that variety where a question is asked or an unreasonable, puzzling statement is made and a solution is to be found out as a reply to be question or as an explanation of the unreasonable statement None of the riddles in the हिया वज्जा is रपट प्रच्छना (in-. volving the use of double-meaning words), but all of them are 33916atai, twelve being in the form of puzzling questions to which answers are to be found out and two (stanzas Nos. 612 and 616) being in the form of puzzling statements, which require to be explained.
Though fear and selesail are thus one and the same thing the word telesail emphasises the amusing or entertaining function of the riddle. I means sport, amusement, pastrime. It is perhar connected with the word oo (or EC1), which finally is to be traced to silst. The word for it underlines the mystifying or puzzling aspect of the riddle which is due to the subtle, de p-laid, hidden answer or explanation which it demands.
The word हृदयवती is used by Anandavardhana in ध्वन्यालोक III.. 43 : हृदयवतीषु च षट्प्रशादिगाथासु, which means "in the gaihās of षट्प्रश and,
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