नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

310 THE NATYASASTRA [ XVII. 54-

Simile of uniqueness

54. What you have done today to satisfy someone else’s desire, is comparable only to your [other] superhuman¹ deeds.

Simile of partial likeness

55. Here is come my lady friend whose face is like the full moon, eyes are like the petals of a blue lotus and the gait is like that of an elephant in rut.

56. These briefly are the varieties of similes. Those not described here are to be gathered from [different] poetical works and from the popular speech (lit. the people).

Condensed Expression

57. When words agreeing with different [sets of] words are combined into one sentence by way of illuminating them together it is [an instance of] Condensed Expression (dīpaka, lit. light)¹.

Example :
58. In that region (lit. there) fulness (lit. want of emptiness) was always effected¹ by swans in the lakes, by flowers in the trees, intoxicated bees in the lotuses and by friendly groups [of men and women] in the parks and the gardens.

Metaphor

59. An image of slight likeness which is conceived due to indecision [from objects] characterised by similar limbs, is called Metaphor (rūpaka)¹.

Example :
60. The pool of water and women, with their lotus-faces, Kumuda-smiles, beautiful and open Nīlotpala-eyes and swans cackling around, seem to be talking to one another.

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54 (C.54; B.XVI.50). ¹ Read atimānuṣa for iti mānuṣa. B.
55 (C.55; B.XVI.51). 56 (C.56; B.XVI.52).
57 (C.60; B.XVI.53). ¹ B. gives an additional def. (XVI.54).
58 (C.61; B.XVI.55). ¹ The plain meaning is that the lakes were full of swans, the trees full of flowers, lotuses full of bees, and the parks and gardens full of friendly groups of people.
59 (C.58; B.XVI.56). ¹ (B.XVI.57) and (C.57) give a second def. which does not appear in all mss.

• 60 (C.59; B.XVI.58).