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    See also ativardhanam.


    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 35, col. 1.
    ativardhanaṃ Excessive growth, increase, adding to, increasing; etatkhalu vyajanānilairati(bhi)vardhanaṃ prabhaṃ janasya yadasmadvidhaiḥ paribodhanamāryasya K. 289; cf. “Carrying coals to New-castle”, or “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, … or with taper-light the eye of Heaven to garnish is wasteful and ridiculous excess”; See the other phrases on the same page.