English Meaning of ghatapata

Meaning of 'ghatapata'

f ghatampata n (Fanciful formations.) Terms for high-sounding, blustering, or vaunting talk; irrelevant and evasive speech; pretences or deceptive excuses; rant, rhapsody, rodomontade, rigmarole. 2 Applied also, in the lawlessness of Indian poets, to the operations (in declining, conjugating, classifying, discriminating &c.) of grammarians, logicians &c.; poets affecting to view these labors as fuss, bustle, pother, and empty ado. Ex. nnalage vyakaranaci nyayaci ghatapatadi khatapata ti vaikunthapentha mothi naṃvavari hinadina khatapatati . (A bright and pure sentiment!)

Meaning of घटपट

f घटंपटं n (Fanciful formations.) Terms for high-sounding, blustering, or vaunting talk; irrelevant and evasive speech; pretences or deceptive excuses; rant, rhapsody, rodomontade, rigmarole. 2 Applied also, in the lawlessness of Indian poets, to the operations (in declining, conjugating, classifying, discriminating &c.) of grammarians, logicians &c.; poets affecting to view these labors as fuss, bustle, pother, and empty ado. Ex. नलगे व्याकरणाची न्यायाची घटपटादि खटपट ती ॥ वैकुंठपेंठ मोठी ॥ नांवावरि हीनदीन खटपटति ॥. (A bright and pure sentiment!)

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