forty-eight characters of a hero or principal personage in
a poetical composition; he is described as a lover attached
only to one mistress and as one of the four varieties (see
also dakṣiṇa, dhṛṣṭa and śaṭha) of either of the four principal
divisions of the nāyaka (q. v.), viz. of the dhīrodātta, dhī-
roddhata, dhīralalita and dhīrapraśānta (qq. vv.). The anukūla-
nāyaka may again be uttama, madhyama or adhama (qq. vv.). E.
anukūla and nāyaka.