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On the concept and presentation of yamaka in early Indian poetic theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Renate Sohnen
Renate Sohnen
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School of Oriental and African Studies, London
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Figures of repetition occur very early in Sanskrit literature. In the oldest stratum, the hymns of the Rgveda, this phenomenon seems to be restricted to the repetition of words with the same meaning, its function being either to express continuation or regularity, i.e. in the case when a single word, normally an adverb, is duplicated (āmreḍita, e.g. dive-dive), or to give a special emphasis to a phrase, preferably at the end of a number of stanzas of a hymn (refrain type). Both kinds of repetition continue to be used in later literature, such as the Pāli Jātakas and the two epics, Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , October 1995 , pp. 495 - 520
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1995

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