Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1 Conjecture, guess.
2 Disregarding, carelessness, indiffer- ence.
3 (In Rhet.) A figure of speech, ‘Poetical fancy,’ which consists in supposing upameya and upamāna as similar to each other in some re- spects and in indicating, expressly or by implication, a probability of their identity based on such simi- larity; it is the imagining of one object under the character of an- other; saṃbhāvanamathotprekṣā...
