Rashanopama, Raśanopamā, Rashana-upama, Rasanopamā: 4 definitions
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Rashanopama means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Raśanopamā can be transliterated into English as Rasanopama or Rashanopama, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryRaśanopamā (रशनोपमा).—a variety of the figure उपमा (upamā); it is 'a string or series' of comparisons, which consists in making the Upameya in the first comparison the Upamāna in the second, and so forth; see S. D.664.
Raśanopamā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms raśanā and upamā (उपमा). See also (synonyms): rasanopamā.
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Rasanopamā (रसनोपमा).—a variety of the figure उपमा (upamā); it is 'a string or series' of comparisons, which consists in making the Upameya in the first comparison the Upamāna in the second, and so forth; see S. D.664.
Rasanopamā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms rasanā and upamā (उपमा). See also (synonyms): raśanopamā.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaśanopamā (रशनोपमा):—[from raśanā] f. ‘string of comparisons’, a form of simile (when the object to which anything is compared is made the subject of another comparison, which again leads to a third and so on), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa]
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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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