ajahatsvārthā

E. a neg. jahat leaving, svārthaṃ sense.

racteristic of the upādānalakṣaṇā q. v. It consists in using

a word in an elliptic meaning without depriving it of its

primary sense; in such phrases as śveto dhāvati or kuntāḥ

praviśanti, are to be supplied aśva &c. in the former, pu-

ruṣa &c. in the latter, so as to impart the sense of ‘a white

horse gallops’, ‘the men with lances enter’, while śveta

and kunta retain their original sense. See, on the contrary,

jahatsvārthā.--E. a neg. and jahatsvārthā, scil. lakṣaṇā.

f. (-rthā) A figure of speech, metonymy, one name being put
for another, as ‘the spears enter’ for the spearmen.

E. a neg. jahat
leaving, svārthā sense.