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Entry उदारहणम्

उदारहणम्udārahaṇam1 Relating, declaration, saying, utterance.
1. 1 Relating, declaration, saying, utterance.
2. Narration, recital, opening a conversation; अथा- ङ्गिरसमग्रण्यमुदाहरणवस्तुपु Ku.6.65; अद्भुतोदाहरणानि Mv.5 stories or narrations.
3. A declaratory song or poem, a sort of panegyric beginning with words like जयति and full of alliteration; पत्रे निवेशितमुदाहरणं प्रियायाः V.2.14; चारणेभ्यस्त्वदीयं जयोदाहरणं श्रुत्वा V.1; जयोदाहरणं बाह्वोर्गापयामास किन्नरान् R.4.78; (येन केनापि तालेन गद्यपद्यसमन्वितम् । जयत्युप- क्रमं मालिन्यादिप्रासविचित्रितम् ॥ तदुदाहरणं नाम विभक्त्यष्टाङ्गसंयुतम् । Pratāparudra.)
4. An instance, example, illustration; समूलघातमव्नन्तः परान्नोद्यन्ति मानिनः । प्रध्वंसितान्धतमसस्त- त्रोदाहरणं रविः ॥ Śi.2.33. किमुदाहरणम् Kāśi. पुराणमितिवृत्ता- ख्यायिकोदाहरणम् ...। Kau. Atmanepada 1.5.
5. (In Nyāya) The third member of an Indian syllogism (which has five members).
6. Beginning, commencement, introduction.
7. Exhibition, illustration; Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)1.
8. (In Rhet.) An illustration reckoned as a figure of speech by some rhetoricians. It resembles अर्थान्तरन्यास; Exempli gratia, for example अमितगुणोऽपि वदार्थो दोषेणैकेन निन्दितो भवति । निखिलरसायनराजो गन्धेनोग्रेण लशुन इव ॥ R. G. (For a clear distinction between the two figures see R. G., under उदाहरण).
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