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

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śāityasucitvasantāpaśāntibhiḥ payaḥ paya ivē 'ti, 'fancying that
“water is as milk because of its sweetness, coolness, purity, and
healing of distress”' (ed. Hall, p. 80).
The anuprāsa, or 'alliteration,' a rhetorical figure found with
considerable frequency in Subandhu's romance, is thus defined
by the Sāhityadarpaṇa (No. 633; cf. Kāvyādarśa, 1. 55; Kāvya-
prakāśa, tr. Jhā, pp. 182–184, Benares, 1898; Kuvalayānandakā-
rikā, 4. 2–5) :
anuprāsaḥ śabdasāmyaṁ vāiṣamyē 'pi svarasya yat,
‘anuprāsa (is) a similarity of sound, despite a dissimilarity of the
vowel.’ As an example from the Vāsavadattā may be cited these
two adjectives descriptive of the River Rēvā: madakalakalahaṁ-
sasārasarasitōdbhrāntabhāḥkūṭavikaṭapucchacchaṭāvyādhūtavikaca-
kamalakhaṇḍavigalitamakarandabindusandōhasurabhitasalilayā..
. . . upakūlasañjātanalanikuñjapuñjitakulāyakukkuṭaghaṭāghūtkā-
rabhāiravatīrayā, 'whose waters were perfumed by the abundance
of the drops of liquid which had fallen from the fragments of full-
blown lotuses shaken by many monstrous tails of bhāḥkūṭa-fish
that had been terrified by the notes, indistinct for passion, of geese
and herons; ..... whose banks were strident with the screams
of multitudes of wild cocks whose nests thronged the bowers of
reeds that had sprung up near its shores' (ed. Hall, pp. 95, 98).
The sama, or 'equal,' is thus defined in the Kāvyādarśa (1. 47;
cf. Sāhityadarpaṇa, No. 618; Kāvyaprakāśa, tr. Jhā, pp. 175–
176, Benares, 1898):
samaṁ bandhēṣv aviṣamaṁ tē mṛdusphuṭamadhyamāḥ
bandhā mṛdusphuṭōnmiśravarṇavinyāsayōnayaḥ,
‘sama is not uneven in collocations (of words); these collocations,
smooth, rough, (and) middling, depend on the arrangement of
smooth, rough, and mixed (sounds).’ It is illustrated by the
passage kāmadāruṇa madāruṇanētrāsmaramayaṁ ramayantaṁ
tvām adayaṁ madayantī param akam itāraṁ param akamitāraṁ
vāñchati, 'what gentle-eyed woman who fervently delighteth
thee, that art not inflamed with passion, (but art) the essence of
love, delightsome, (and) a most excellent lover, desireth another