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# Kavyalankara 3.45

Kāvyālaṅkāra 3.45

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.bhamaha.3.45)

yatra tenaiva tasya syād upamānopameyatā  
asādṛśyavivakṣātas tamityāhurananvayam //

> Where the state of standard and subject of comparison belongs to the very same thing,  
> due to the desire to express lack of resemblance \[to anything else\], that they call peerless comparison (ananvaya):  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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