Alternative spellings of this word include Chhekapahnuti.

In Hinduism

Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

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

Chekāpahnuti (छेकापह्नुति) refers to one of the 93 alaṃkāras (“figures of speech”) mentioned by Cirañjīva Bhaṭṭācārya (fl. 17th century) in his Kāvyavilāsa and is listed as one of the 89 arthālaṃkāras (figure of speech determined by the sense, as opposed to sound).

Cirañjīva has mentioned chekāpahnuti as a separate alaṃkāra and has followed Jayadeva’s Candrāloka verbatim regarding this alaṃkāra.

Example of the chekāpahnuti-alaṃkāra:—

adyā”yāto niśidvāri jalpanmadhuramānataḥ |
santuṣṭaḥ sakhi! kiṃ kānto na hi hanta sa kokilaḥ ||

“Now the night has come in the door, (the beloved) is bent down speaking sweetly. Is your beloved happy. No he is surely not, but alas! He is a cuckoo”.

Notes: This is a conversation between two female friends. The first one says that in the night her beloved is arrived in the door and speaking sweetly. The second female friend asks whether he is her beloved; then the first female friend conceals the fact of the arrival of her beloved and says that he is not her beloved but a cuckoo. As the fact is concealed and the unreal thing that is the cuckoo is mentioned it is an example of chekāpahnuti.

context information

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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Chekāpahnuti (छेकापह्नुति).—f. a figure of speech; one of the varieties of अपह्नुति (apahnuti). The Chandrāloka thus defines and illustrates it:-छेकापह्नुतिरन्यस्य शङ्कातस्तस्य निह्नवे । प्रजल्पन् मत्पदे लग्नः कान्तः किं न हि नूपुरः (chekāpahnutiranyasya śaṅkātastasya nihnave | prajalpan matpade lagnaḥ kāntaḥ kiṃ na hi nūpuraḥ) 5.27.

Chekāpahnuti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms cheka and apahnuti (अपह्नुति).

context information

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

Chēkāpahnuti (ಛೇಕಾಪಹ್ನುತಿ):—[noun] (rhet.) a kind of figure of speech in which the truth or fact is subtly concealed to make it not obvious.

context information

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: Cheka, Apahnuti.

Full-text: Alamkara.

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