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Dhvanyalokalocana 48

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48.2

The group of poetic figures, metaphor and the rest, which resorted to being expressed—
all that has been shown abundantly to bear the state of being implied. ||

48.3

Those poetic figures such as metaphor which are well known elsewhere as being expressed have been abundantly shown elsewhere by the revered Bhaṭṭodbhaṭa and others to be implicit. Thus the appearance of simile, metaphor, and hyperbole in poetic figures such as doubtful statement has been demonstrated, so that the fact that one poetic figure is suggested within another poetic figure need not be established through effort. ||

48.4

Yet just this much is indeed stated: