उपम

विरोधः 1 Opposition, obstruction, impediment.

-2 Blockade, siege, investment.

-3 Restraint, check.

-4 Inconsistency, incongruity, contradiction; विरोधो न विद्यते ब्रह्माद्वितीयमेव सत्यम् । (-त्रिपाद्विभूतिमहानारायणोपनिषत् 4.2.)

-5 Antithesis, contrast.

-6 Enmity, hostility; विरोधो विश्रान्तः U.6.11; Pt.1.332; R.1.13.

-7 A quarrel, disagreement.

-8 A calamity, misfortune.

-9 (In Rhet.) An apparent incongruity which is merely verbal and is explained away by properly construing the passage; it consists in representing objects as antithetical to one another though in the nature of things they are not so; representing things as being together though really they cannot be together; (this figure is largely used by Bāṇa and Subandhu; पुष्पवत्यपि पवित्रा, कृष्णो$प्यसुदर्शनः, भरतो$पि शत्रुघ्नः being familiar instan- ces;) it is thus defined by Mammaṭa:-- विरोधः सो$विरोधे- $पि विरुद्धत्वेन यद्वचः K. P.1; this figure is also called विरोधाभास).

-Comp. -उक्तिः f.,

-वचनम् contradiction, opposition.

-उपमा (in Rhet.) a comparison founded on opposition; शतपत्रं शरच्चन्द्रस्त्वदाननमिति त्रयम् । परस्परविरोधीति सा विरोधोपमा मता ॥ Kāv.2.33.

-कारिन् a. fomenting quarrels.

-कृत् a. opposing. (-m.) an enemy.

-परिहारः reconciliation; Kull. on Ms.7.152.