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may be classified as mithuna (pair), veṇika (cluster), citra (mixed)
and vicitra (harmonious)
 
Gramya is either masṛna or utkaṭa (soft or hard)
Anuprāsaḥll the varieties
mentioned above may again be divided into three groups
: Alliteration
 
may

(i)
be classified as mithunaased on sound (pairsoft, medium and hard), veni
(ii) based on the position of words and structure of sen-
tences,
(iii) based on phonetically identical letters (as classified by
grammarians such as voiced and unvoiced, aspirates
and non-aspirates, surds and sonants etc. In ancient
Gree
ka (cluster), citra (mixed)
and vicitra (harmonious)
 
Gramya is either masrna or ut
rhetoric followed by Latin, different varieties of
this pattern are
kata (soft or hard) All the varieties
mentioned above may again be divided into three groups:
 
(i) based on sound (soft, medium and hard),
 
(ii)
 
based on the position of
nowords and structure of sen-
tences,
 
(iii)
 
based on phonetically identical letters (as classified by
grammarians such as voiced and unvoiced, aspirates
and non-aspirates, surds and sonants etc
n as alliteratio, paromoeon, polyto-
pon, lannomination or homoeoteleuton
. In ancient
Greek rhetoric followed by Latin, different varieties of
this pattern are known as alliteratio, paromoeon, polyto-
pon, lannomination or homoeoteleuton.
 

 
eg 1. Soft Alliteration (with 1 sound)
 

lalita-lavanga-lata-parisiā-pariśīlana-komala-malaya-samire
īre
ललित - -लवङ्ग - -लता - -परिशीलन -कोमल - -मलय- समीरे
 

In the cool southern breeze coming through the

tender lavanga creepers ...
 

 
2. Alliteration with repetition of words:
 
sarvam

sarvaṃ
duḥkham duḥkham, sarvamṃ, sarvaṃ kṣaṇikam ksaṇikam,
sarvam

sarvaṃ
śünyam sūnyaṃ śūnyam.
 

सर्वं दुःखं दुःखम्, सर्वं क्षणिकं क्षणिकम्, सर्वं शून्यं शून्यम् ।

Everything is but sorrowful, everything transient,

everything void.
 

 
3. Mixed Alliteration:
 

manda-mandam-uditaḥ prayayau kham bhiīta-bhīta iva
sita-mayu

śīta-mayū
khah
 

मन्दमन्दमुदितः प्रययौ खं भीतभीत इव शीतमयूखः ।
 

 
The cool-beamed moon slowly and slowly rose and

spread over the sky as if freightened and freightened.
 

 
Some other example of different varieties of anuprāsa:

i) anuprāsa based on syllables (Varṇa anuprāsa) :

प्रणवः प्रवणो यथा प्रथमः प्रमथेषु यः ।
 
pran

praṇ
avaḥ pravano yathaṇo yathā prathamaḥ pramathesu yaḥ.
 
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