Rasarnavasudhakara 3.111

3.111

atha anumānam-
arthasyābhyūhanaṃ liṅgād anumānaṃ pracakṣate ||

Now anumāna (inference):
They call inference the deduction of a fact from a sign.

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yathā tatraiva [bāla-rāmāyaṇe, 7.21 padyāt pūrvam] pratīhārī (samantād avalokya)-katham ayam anyādṛśa iva lakṣyate' mburāśiḥ |

As in that very work [Bālarāmāyaṇa, before verse 7.21], the female door-keeper (looking around): 'How is it that this mass of water appears quite different?'

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vandī (yathopalakṣita-mārgeṇa sa-camatkāraṃ puro' valokya)-paśya | vilīyamāna-jala-mānuṣa-mithunam atyartha-kadarthyamāna-śaṅkhinī-yūtham ity upakramya,

The bard (looking forward with amazement, along the path observed): 'Look! The pairs of merfolk dissolving, the host of Śaṅkhinī spirits exceedingly tormented...' Beginning with this,