alaṅkāras or modes of writing or speaking elegantly, a
variety of the alaṅkāra dīpaka q. v.; viz. when a variegated
description reposes on, and is illustrated as it were by, a
verb which is placed at the end of the sentence. (It would
seem that the injunction of the principal rhetorical works
according to which there must be several verbs and but
one subject in a dīpaka has not been considered as absolute,
as results from this instance: sa giriṃ taruṣaṇḍamaṇḍitaṃ
samavāpya tvarayā latāmṛgaḥ . smitadarśitakāryaniścayaḥ kapisai-
nyairmuditairamaṇḍayat where there is but one verb viz. amaṇḍa-
yat which has the properties required in this dīpaka. Com-
pare also ādidīpaka, madhyadīpaka, pratīpadīpaka and mālādī-
paka.) E. anta and dīpaka.