Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c80.83

v2.c80.83

“your face always shines but the moon shines in the night”—*vyatireka*; “in the heavens the moon, on earth your face”—*dṛṣṭānta*; “the moon reigns in heaven, your face reigns on earth”—*prativastūpamā*; “your face bears the beauty of the moon”—*nidarśana*; “the moon is pale before your face”—*aprastuta-praśamsā*; “by your moon-face the warmth of passion is cooled”—*pariṇāma*; “your face beautifully spotted with black eyes and adorned with the light of smile”—*samāsokti*. Some of these turns of expression lose their force or point in the translation, but this will roughly indicate the varieties of figures arrived at by nice distinctions, although these constitute only a few, of which comparison forms the basis. They are sharply separated from one another; and although some of the distinctions may appear to us to be somewhat trivial or formal, we cannot refuse to recognise the amount of ingenuity shown in the matter. Even taking only one figure *upamā*, they subdivide it into a number of inferior varieties, most of which, however, are based on peculiarities of grammatical construction, but which Appayya Dikṣita, one of the latest writers on the subject, refuses to admit on this very ground in his treatise on poetic figures³⁶.