Vishamalankara, Viṣamālaṅkāra, Vishamalamkara: 2 definitions
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Vishamalankara means something in Marathi. 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.
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryviṣamālaṅkāra (विषमालंकार).—m S A figure of rhetoric,--oppositeness or contrariety of end (to the end proposed). The usual definition is iṣṭānavāptipūrvaka aniṣṭapratilambha, and the exemplification is that of a rat seeking to get something in a hole gets into the mouth of a snake.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusViṣamālaṃkāra (ವಿಷಮಾಲಂಕಾರ):—[noun] (rhet.) a figure of speech in which heterogeneous objects are clubbed and explained together.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Mudrarakshasa (literary study) (by Antara Chakravarty)
3.19. Use of Viṣama-alaṃkāra < [Chapter 3 - Use of Alaṃkāras in Mudrārākṣasa]