वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

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up (and thus completely disappear) would be rūpakātiśayōkti;
and as an example may be cited, from the description of Vāsa-
vadattā just quoted, the passage vilōcanēndīvarabhramarapaṅk-
tibhyāṃ mukhamadanamandiratōraṇābhyāṃ rāgasāgaravēlābh-
yāṃ yāuvananartakalāsikābhyāṃ bhrūlatābhyāṃ virāiamānām,
‘adorned with delicate brows which were clusters of bees about
her blue-lotus eyes; portals of her face that formed the abode of
Love; the shores of Passion’s sea; wantoning in youthful dancing’
(ed. Hall, p. 61).
The akramātiśayōkti, or ‘fused hyperbole,’ is closely akin to
the preceding rhetorical figure, of which it is merely an intensi-
fication. It receives the following definition in the Kuvalayā-
nandakārikā (1. 39):
akramātiśayōktiḥ syāt sahatvē hētukāryayōḥ,
‘akramātiśayōkti would be in the unity of cause and effect.’
Śivarāma cites but one instance of the figure in the Vāsavadattā,
this being samaṃ dviṣāṃ dhanuṣāṃ ca jīvākṛṣṭiṃ yōdhāś cakruḥ,
‘the warriors drew at once the ‹lives (jīva)› of their foes and the
‹strings (jīvā)› of their bows’ (ed. Hall, p. 295).
Two other forms of hyperbole are mentioned by Śivarāma as
occurring in Subandhu’s romance. The first of these is bhēdakā-
tiśayōkti, or ‘hyperbole of differentiation.’ It is defined as follows
in the Kuvalayānandakārikā (1. 36):
bhēdakātiśayōktis tu tasyāi ”vā ’nyatvavarṇanam,
‘bhēdakātiśayōkti is the description of that (which is the subject
under discussion) by means of differentiation,’ and it is exemplified
in the Vāsavadattā by pṛthur api gōtrasamutsāraṇavistāri-
tabhūmaṇḍalaḥ, ‘Pṛthu ‹levelled the earth by banishing the
mountains› (but Cintāmaṇi ‹covered the earth by sending forth
his offspring›)’ (ed. Hall, p. 22).
The remaining form of hyperbole in the Vāsavadattā is sam-
bandhātiśayōkti, or ‘hyperbole of connexion,’ which is thus
defined in the Kuvalayānandakārikā (1. 37):
sambandhātiśayōktiḥ syād ayōgē yōgakalpanam,
‘sambandhātiśayōkti would be the invention of connexion when