RULE id: huṅkāra (189)
SOURCE: brihaddesi_sharma_1992 (vol_I_p059, vol_I_p060, vol_I_p061, vol_I_p065)
SCOPE: alankara family, Brihaddesi (Mātaṅga ~750 CE)
CONCEPT: huṅkāra
STATUS: canonical

ASSERTIONS:
  - [structural] Huṅkāra is ekakala (one-unit form) formed through the ascent and descent of three svaras or four svaras
    -- p.vol_I_p059 "Like hasita, through the ascent (and descent) of three svaras, or the ascent (and descent) of four svaras, both ways huṅkāra is ekakala 75 (with one-unit"
  - [structural] huṅkāra is structured in eighteen kalās (phrases)
    -- p.vol_I_p060 "Thus is (ends) huṅkāra in eighteen kalās (phrases)."
  - [structural] huṅkāra consists of repeated ascending and descending sequences of two-svara phrases
    -- p.vol_I_p060 "sarigā garisā, rigamā magarī, gamapā pamagā, mapadhā dhapamā, padhanī nidhapā, dhanisā sanidhā"
  - [relation] huṅkāra is used as a comparative reference for the manner of ascending with three solfa syllables
    -- p.vol_I_p061 "Like huṅkāra one should ascend (with) three solfa syllables without a gap"
  - [structural] Huṅkāra ascends in gapless svaras with three or four svaras in ekakala form
    -- p.vol_I_p065 "That which) ascends in gapless svaras like hasita with three or four svaras (in each phrase) in ekakala 109 (form), should be known as one named huṅkāra."

CITED_RULES:
  - kalā  (structural)
  - ekakala  (structural)
  - hasita  (structural)
  - svaras  (structural)

CONFIDENCE: canonical
PROTECT: true