apahnuti

1 Denial, or concealment of knowledge.

2 A figure of rhetoric, applying a description or simile to other than its obvious application.

E. apahnaṅa and ktin aff.

² (In Rhetoric.) A figure of speech, one of the alamkāras

or modes of elegant expression, viz. with two varieties,

each comprising again two subdivisions: ^a. a hidden com-

parison, the simile being expressed by way of negation or

denial, and that part of the sentence which contains the ne-

gation or the denial either preceding or following the object

of comparison, e. g. (preceding) nedaṃ nabhomaṇḍalamamburāśirnai-

tāśca tārā navaphenabhaṅgāḥ &c.; or (following) etadvibhāti cara-

mācalacūḍacumbihiṇḍīrapiṇḍaruciśītamarīcibimbam . ujjvā-

litasya rajanīṃ madanānalasya dhūmaṃ dadhatprakaṭalāñchanakaitavena;

comp. also antargatopamā; ^b a covert expression, the in-

tended sense being conveyed either by way of a pun or by some

other artful mode of language; e. g. (by way of a pun) kāle

vāridharāṇāmapatitayā naiva śakyate sthātum . utkaṇṭitāsi

tarale na hi na hi sakhi vicchilaḥ panthāḥ (where the intended

sense is conveyed by the double etymology of apatitā

(apati, taddh. aff. tal or a-patitā (from pat, kṛt aff. kta);

or (by allusion) iha puro'nilakampitavigrahā milati kā na

vanaspatinā latā . smarasi kiṃ sakhi kāntaratotsavaṃ na hi ghanā-

gamarītirudāhṛtā ... Comp. also vakrokti. E. hnu with apa,

kṛt aff. ktin.

f. (-tiḥ)

1. Denial or concealment of knowledge.

2. A figure
of rhetoric, applying a description or simile to other than its
obvious application.

E. apahnuṅ and ktin aff.

1) das Läugnen ŚABDAR. im ŚKDR.

— 2) N. einer rhetorischen Figur KĀVYA-PR. 146, 11. fgg.

2) als Bez. einer best. rhetorischen Figur so v. a. Verheimlichung, Laugnung und auch Verhüllung, Einkleidung KĀVYAPR. 146. KĀVYĀD.2,304. SĀH. D. 683. fg. KUVALAY. 23,b. niṣidhya viṣayaṃ sāmyādanyārope hyapahnutiḥ PRATĀPAR. 80,b,6. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 123,a,11. 208,b,16.