anmil-akhar
अनमिल आखर anmil ākharIll-matched letters, the phrase in which Tulsīdās grants a charge against śābara syllables. Anmil is the negative of mil, to meet or to join, so the phrase reads as a verdict on assortment; the standard Hindī commentary construes it four ways.
Where this term appears
- The philology of unintelligibility Treatise
Anmil ākhar , ill-matched letters, is a judgement about register rather than about meaning.
- The power in the phoneme Treatise
— Rāmcaritmānas, Bālkāṇḍ 1.15.3 · first half of the second line only, not a complete chaupāī Anmil ākhar : ill-matched letters, syllables that do not fit together properly.
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
Mānas-pīyūṣa sets out the anvaya of anmil ākhar arath na jāpū and says outright that it can be construed in several ways.