[Y-Indology] concordance of similes and metaphors in Sanskrit literature

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I do not know what really is the question.

 

For the present I shall reproduce something on

these two - upama and rupaka. This is a "net-yield."

 

>Today's Beautiful Gem:

 

Upama and Rupaka' by Kalidasa and Vyasa.

 

"asti uttaras'yAM dis'i devatAtmA

himAlayo nAma nagAdhirAjah:

pUrvAparau toyanidhI vaghAya

stitah: pRthivyA iva mAnadaNDah:"

 

"duryodhano manyumayo mahAdrumah:

skandah: karNah: s'akunis tasya s'AkhAh:

duh:s'Asanah: puSpaphale samRddhe

mUlaM rAjA dhRtarASTro 'manISI

 

yudhiSTiro dharmamayo mahAdrumah:

skando 'rjuno bhImaseno 'sya s'AkAh:

mAdrIsutau puSpaphale samRddhe

mUlaM kRSNo brahma ca brAhmaNAs' ca" |

 

"In the north is the soul of gods,

| the superlative mountains of Himalayas,

| spanning the eastern and the western oceans,

| situated to measure the earth as a rod."

 

| "Duryodhana is the great tree of furious temper;

| Karna is the trunk, Sakuni the branches;

| Duhs'asana the plentiful flowers and fruits;

| and the unwise Dhrtarashtra the root.

 

| "Yudhishtira is the great tree of righteousness;

| Arjuna is the trunk, Bhima the branches;

| the sons of Madri the plentiful flowers and fruits;

| and its roots are Krshna, Brahman and Brahmanas."

 

Note: The first poem is the opening stanza in Kalidasa's famed Kumarasambhava.

The second long poem occurs in Mahabharata.

 

Among the sixty-four arts and sciences is one called alaMkAra s'Astra or the

science of figures of speech. The first one is an example of upama or simile

(remember the saying: upamA kAlidAsasya) and the second one is an example of

rUpaka or metaphor. In fact, there is a famous treatise called candrAloka by

Jayadeva (the author of Gitagovinda) on the figures

of speech. In upama, the objects compared and compared to are quite distinct and

bear an isomorphic relationship. In rUpaka they are almost indistinguishable.

 

Om s'aantih: Peace! - J. K. Mohana Rao<

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Phillip Ernest <phillip.ernest wrote:

Hi group.

 

Is there such a thing?

 

Phillip

 

 

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