On August 15, 2000, Valerie J Roebuck wrote: >Is there a technical term for the indirect locutions that >Sanskrit poets are so fond of? Yes. See for instance: Edwin Gerow *A Glossary of Indian Figures of Speech*. The Hauge & Paris 1971. J. A. F Roodbergen *Mallinâtha´s GhaNTâpatha on the Kirâtârjunîya, I - VI*. Leiden 1984. P. 526 - 564.