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Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Source: Shodhganga: The Kavyavilasa of Ciranjiva Bhattacarya (kavyashastra)

Bimbapratibimbabhāva (बिम्बप्रतिबिम्बभाव).—When two ideas are represented as extremely similar to each other, so much so that one seems to be the reflection of another, the relation of the image and its reflection or bimbapratibimbabhāva is said to exist between them. This bimbapratibimbabhāva predominates in dṛṣṭānta. There is another relation called vastuprativastubhāva which comes as a contrast against bimbapratibimbabhāva and which is predominant in prativastūpamā.

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Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Bimbapratibimbabhāva (बिम्बप्रतिबिम्बभाव):—[=bimba-pratibimba-bhāva] [from bimba-pratibimba > bimba] m. ([Pratāparudrīya]) condition of or° and c° etc.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Biṃbapratibiṃbabhāva (ಬಿಂಬಪ್ರತಿಬಿಂಬಭಾವ):—

1) [noun] the relation between an object and its image in a mirror.

2) [noun] (rhet.) a kind of figure of speech, in which relation similar to this is used to show the resemblence and contrast between two things compared with each other.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Bhava, Prati, Bimba.

Full-text: Pimpa-pirati-pimpapavam, Vastuprativastubhava, Drishtanta, Prativastupama, Bhava.

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