224 The tenth Book of the Sdhitya JJarpana. [No. '•>, 



This is produced by the use of the word, ' with,' or any equivalent 

 phrase, in connection with the exaggeration which is the especial 

 object of Atis'ayokti itself. The last instance in the first class of the 

 Sahitya Darpana, (" The lover also had raga &c"), is thus an example 

 of the two figures combined. We have an example of Sahokti in 

 Byron's Giaour : 



For courtesy and pity died 



With Hasan on the mountain-side. 



To illustrate the subject further, I add a translation of the account 

 of Atis'ayokti given in the tenth section of the Kavya Prakas'a, — 

 an older treatise on rhetoric compiled by Mammata A'charya, a Cash- 

 mirian Brahman, about five centuries ago. 



" Where the original topic is lost and swallowed up in something 

 else, — ivhere the original subject is viewed as itself changed, — ichere 

 there is an artificial supposition by the force of'\i or its equivalent, — 

 and ivhere there is a contradiction of the priority and posteriority of 

 cause and effect, — in these four cases we must recognise At is ayoJcti." 



a. The first kind is where the subject of comparison is swallowed 

 up in the object, as — 



" A lotus but not in the water, and two blue lotuses in that lotus, 

 and the three on a golden creeper ; — and the creeper itself tender 

 and dear ! what a series of portents is this !" 



Here the face, the eyes, and the form are swallowed up hi the lotus, 

 the blue lotuses and the creeper. 



b. The second is where the original is lost by apparently becoming 

 something else, as, 



" Her beauty is something quite different, the aspect of her form is 

 quite extraordinary ; this S'yama was not the work of a common 

 Prajapati."* 



* The Prakrit of these lines is obscure, 



^W ^T^TfW ^f^T fjf^ 3fTi; ^tUSJ^T^T I 



(The metre is Arya.) The Schol. thus explains them ^JSJ^T^W?*^ 3nfa 



v*s!T f^^q I The S 'yama is technically defined thus -j^^ ^^TW^^ft'Tt tft*IT rT 

 ^^W^T I rfTrgffTW^WT *?T <^t 1?JT«f(T ^rajTT II 



