Abstract
The Indian science of rhetoric （alaṅkāra） systematizes figures of speech. While a large number of classical works on Sanskrit rhetoric have been handed down to us, Pāli rhetoric has only one extant treatise: the Subodhālaṅkāra, written by Saṅgharakkhita. This paper discusses how verbal figures of speech （saddālaṅkāra） and semantic figures of speech （atthālaṅkāra） are defined and related to each other in the Subodhālaṅkāra, with a special focus on the relationship between superimposition （samādhi） and metaphor （rūpaka）.
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