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Antyanuprasa, Antyānuprāsa, Antya-anuprasa: 5 definitions

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In Hinduism

Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Antyanuprasa in Kavyashastra glossary
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Antyānuprāsa (अन्त्यानुप्रास) refers to a type of Anuprāsa (“alliteration�) which represents one of the various Alaṅkāras (‘figures of speech�) classified as Śabda (‘sound�), as employed in the Bhīṣmacarita (Bhishma Charitra) which is a 屹ⲹ (‘epic poem�) written by Hari Narayan Dikshit.—In VI.44 of the Bhīṣmacarita the poet has deliberately described the welcome of Devavrata made by the females of Hastiāpura by the use of ‘ā� vowel in the words �ܻṅg�� and �Գٲ峾ṅg�� in the end of the third and fourth quarters in ԳٲԳܱ. The other examples of the same Figure of speech are I.31, II.20, VI.38, VII.50, IX.36, IX.56, X.32, XII.30, XIII.19, XV.23, XV.24, XVI.38, XVIII.29, XIX.31, and XX.26.

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Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, 屹ⲹśٰ) 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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Antyanuprasa in Sanskrit glossary
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Antyānuprāsa (अन्त्यानुप्रास).—see under अनुप्रास (Գܱ).

Derivable forms: ԳٲԳܱ� (अन्त्यानुप्रास�).

Antyānuprāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms antya and Գܱ (अनुप्रास).

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Antyānuprāsa (अन्त्यानुप्रास):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-�) (In Rhetoric.) Alliteration of the final single or combined consonant together with its vowel, or as the case be, with its Anusvāra and Visarga; rhyme; one of the five varieties of Գܱ q. v. It may occur either at the end of a Pāda, or at the end of words in the middle of a Pāda. E. antya and Գܱ.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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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