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