atiSayaH [ SI-ac ] 1 Excess, preeminence excellence; vIrya° R. 3. 62 ; mahimnAM… atiSayaH U. 4. 21 ; tasmin viDAnAtiSaye viDAtuH R. 6. 11 excellence, highest perfection of art. 2 Superiority (in quality, rank, quantity &c.); mahArGastIrTAnAmiva hi mahatAM kopyatiSayaH U. 6. 11 ; oft in comp. with adjectives, in the sense of ‘exceedingly’, ‘excessively’; °ramaRIyaH Mu. 3 ; AsIdatiSayaprekzyaH R. 17. 25 ; muktAguRAtiSayasaMBftamaMqanaSrIH V. 5. 19 ; or with nouns, meaning ‘excellent’, ‘excessive’, ‘very great’; °rayaH, aSvAtiSayaM K. 80 the best of horses; °dAridryopahatAH . 3 Advantageous result, one of the superhuman qualities attributed to Jaina saints. — a. [ atiSayaH astyarTe ac ] Superior, pre-eminent, excessive, very great, abundant. Comp. — uktiH f. 1 exaggerated or hyperbolical language, extreme assertion. 2 a figure of speech, (corr. to hyperbole) said to be of 5 kinds in S. D. , but of 4 in K. P. ; nigIryADyavasAnaM tu prakftasya pareRa yat . prastutasya yadanyatvaM yadyarToktO ca kalpanam . kAryakAraRayoryaSca pOrvAparyaviparyayaH . vijYeyAtiSayoktiH sA ; Ex. of the first kind: kamalamanaMBAsi kamale ca kuvalaye tAni kanakalatikAyAM . sA ca sukumArasuBagetyutpAtaparaMparA keyam .. 3 verbosity.