रूप रूपण

रूपक

रूपक a. [रूप्-ण्वुल्]
Bodily, corporeal.
2 Figurative (as words &c.).
−कः A particular coin, a rupee.
−कं
1 Form, figure, shape (at the end of comp.).
2 Any manifestation or representation.
3 A sign, feature.
4 A kind, species
5 A drama, play, a dramatic composition; (one of the two main subdivisions of dramatic compositions; it is divided into ten classes; there are eighteen minor divisions of it called उपरूपक); दृश्यं तत्राभिनेयं त- द्रूपारोपात्तु रूपकं S. D. 272-3.
6 (In Rhet.) A figure of speech cor responding to the English metaphor, in which the upameya is represented as being identical with the upamāna; तद्रूपकमभेदो य उपमानोपमे- ययोः K. P. 10 (see ad loc. for details).
6 A kind of weight (= three gunjās).
−Comp.
−तालः a particular time in music.
−शब्दः a figurative or metaphorical expression.

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