utprekṣā

Dictionary meanings for utprekṣā from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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utprekṣā

Normalized lookup: utpreksa

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...

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