Index of Similes
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A
B
- baby boy taking sharp object into mouth
- bath powder kneaded together
- blind men
- bones, chain of
- borrowed goods
- boulder thrown into deep lake
- bowl of clear water, examining reflection in
- boys and girls playing with sand castles
- branches of tree, inconstancy of
- buckets of water in ocean
- bull’s hide stretched
- burning oil lamp, inconstancy of
- butcher’s axe and chopping block
- butter
C
D
E
F
- fields: excellent, middling, poor
- fire
- fish, rising of
- flame
- foliage of tree, inconstancy of
- footprints of legged animals
- fortress gatekeeper
- four men striding to end of cosmos
- fruits of tree
G
H
I
J
- jackhammer, use of
L
M
N
- Nālandā, destruction of
O
P
R
S
- salt earth used to clean dirty cloth
- salt, lump of
- sand grains in river Ganges
- seeds and dependence on earth
- sesame oil, squeezing from gravel
- shadow discernible in dependence on stump
- shadow of tree, inconstancy of
- sheaves of reeds learning against one another
- sick people
- snake’s head
- strong man
- sun’s ray
- swords and spears
T
V
- vina, tuning of
