Atyantatiraskritavacyadhvani, Atyantatiraskṛtavācyadhvani, Atyantatiraskritavacya-dhvani: 2 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Atyantatiraskṛtavācyadhvani can be transliterated into English as Atyantatiraskrtavacyadhvani or Atyantatiraskritavacyadhvani, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Atyantatiraskritavachyadhvani.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Atyantatiraskṛtavācyadhvani (अत्यन्ततिरस्कृतवाच्यध्वनि):—[=aty-anta-tiraskṛta-vācya-dhvani] [from aty-anta] f. (in rhetoric) a metaphoric

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Atyantatiraskṛtavācyadhvani (अत्यन्ततिरस्कृतवाच्यध्वनि):—[karmadharaya compound] m.

(-niḥ) (In rhetoric.) A metaphorical expression, when the word expressing the figure or comparison drops its literal sense in order to become appropriate for the comparison; f. i. in the sentence ‘the moon does not shine, like a mirror which has become blind by breathing upon it’—the word ‘blind’ loses its literal meaning, to serve as a comparison for ‘the not shining’ of the moon with which it has no common quality. E. atyanta, tiraskṛta, vācya (these three words forming a [bahuvrihi compound]) and dhvani.

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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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