lalitā alankara

TRANSLATION ²³¹ [4. Mālatī] The elā composed with long and short (syllables), 64 adorned with sweet sounds, similarly straight, having profuse gamakas and alankāras (and) beautiful, is mālatī. (452) [5. Lalitā] This lalitā (elā) should be sung by the gandharvas with graceful regulation of syllables. (Its) two feet are like the first one, combined with gamakas and hindu-mūrchanā.65 (453) [6. Hemavatī] (It) is with graceful pada, ends in biruda and similarly there is gamaka placed on the yati. 66 This is the order of the (first) two feet, then there is the name of the object of description. (454) [7. Kusumavatī?] Where that (third foot) composed with textual units comprised of short syllables, is sung again after having sung the name of the singer (composer) 'preceded' (accompanied) by the description of the play of valour and the like, that has been said to be varṇailā by Matanga⁶⁷ according to the accepted order. Where the respectability brought about by the description of glory, enthusiasm, steadfastness and the like is seen in a definite order, that is said to be varyailā. It is sung in tālas like maņļha, dvitīya, kankāla (and) įmatitāla. (455-457) This is one manner in which (varnaila) has been described clearly, now the seven varnailās are being described in a way similar (samarasa) to the same. (458)