Upamanopameyabhava, Upamānopameyabhāva, Upamana-upameyabhava: 2 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Upamānopameyabhāva (उपमानोपमेयभाव).—relation between the subject of comparison and the standard of comparison.

Derivable forms: upamānopameyabhāvaḥ (उपमानोपमेयभावः).

Upamānopameyabhāva is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms upamāna and upameyabhāva (उपमेयभाव).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Upamānopameyabhāva (उपमानोपमेयभाव):—[=upamānopameya-bhāva] [from upa-māna > upa-mā] m. the connection between the thing to be compared and the object with which it is compared.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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