Niyamopama, Niyamopamā, Niyama-upama: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Niyamopamā (नियमोपमा).—a simile which expressly states that something can be compared only with something else.

Niyamopamā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms niyama and upamā (उपमा).

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

Niyamopamā (नियमोपमा).—[feminine] a kind of comparison ([rhetorie]).

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

Niyamopamā (नियमोपमा):—[=ni-yamopamā] [from ni-yama > ni-yam] f. a simile which expressly states that something can be compared only with something else, [Kāvya literature ii, 19.]

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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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