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Right Hon'ble Srinivasa Sastri equates the Sanskrit
upalakshana with the English synechdoche.  Explaining how
the name 'Lakshmana' was synonymous with Rama and did not
need a separate mention, he cites how Lakshmana was sent
together with Rama, though Viswamitra asked only for Rama. 
He points out that when Viswamitra speaks to the brothers
on the way, he addresses only Rama and not Lakshmana.  Why
does he do so?  Srinivasa Sastri says:

"If he talks to them, he only says 'Rama, Raghava'
addressing the elder brother.  It would be uncharitable to
assume that he did not like the presence of Lakshmana or
that he wished intentionally to ignore him.  I suppose in
his mind too, as in the minds of everybody else, to speak
of Rama was to speak to the other brother too.  You need
not specially have a form of address for it.  As he gives
them instruction in various matters, he mentions Rama and
not Lakshmana, except once or twice and that when he uses
the dual number.  Even when he taught them the great twin
mantras of Bala and Atibala, he taught them to Sri Rama. 
The commentator, hard put to explain the matter, says that
Lakshmana is also included in the word Rama by Upalakshana,
the Sanskritic equivalent for one of the forms of the
English figure of speech, synecdoche.  When Sri Rama is
mentioned, Lakshmana is also included in it."

(Lectures on the Ramayana, Second Lecture, page 17)

Now, synecdoche is defined thus "a figure of speech by
which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty
ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society),
the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the
genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the
name of the material for the thing made (as boards for
stage)"

That is, when I say 'sail' by upalakshna I mean, 'ship' and
not just the sail.  

Regards,

Hari Krishnan


--- sgopan <sgopan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Sri Jagadiah :
> 
> UpalakshaNam is a Loaded word and is also cryptic.


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