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    See also ativardhanaṃ.


    Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    vol. 1, p. 46.
    ativardhanam Excessive growth, increase, adding to, increasing; etatkhalu vyajanānilairati (bhi) vardhanaṃ prabhañjanasya yadasma- dvidhaiḥ 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".