Text 10.53

माला तु पूर्व-वत् ॥ १०.९४द्२ ॥

mālā tu pūrva-vat || 10.94d2 ||

The mālā variety of niraṅga rūpaka is like the previous one (mālopamā).

pūrveṣām iva pūrva-vat. ekasmin bahūnāṃ rūpaṇe mālā-rūpakam. upalakṣaṇam idam upamādeḥ.

This means it is like the mālā variety of the previous ones. When there is a representation of many upon one, that is mālā-rūpaka (a series of metaphors). This is a partial indication of upamā and so on.

Commentary:

Here Mammaṭa’s elaboration is: mālopamāyām ivaikasmin bahava āropitāḥ, “There are many upamānas for one upameya, as in the case of mālopamā.” Mammaṭa had referred to mālopamā in his elaboration of verse 411: iti bhinne ca tasmin ekasyaiva bahūpamānopādāne mālopamā (10.21). Narahari Sarasvatī Tīrtha and Śrīvatsa-lāñchana Bhaṭṭācārya say the above sūtra proves that the person who wrote the kārikās (definitional verses) also wrote the vṛttis (elaborations).^[1]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

yadyapi kārikā-kāreṇa mālopamā pṛthak noktā tathāpi kārikā-vṛttyor eka-kartṛkatayā abheda-vivakṣayā uktaṃ pūrva-vad iti (Bāla-cittānurañjinī). atredaṃ bodhyam, mālopamā vṛttau lakṣitā kārikāyāṃ sā dṛṣṭāntī-kṛteti vṛttikṛt-kārikākṛtor aikyam iti (Sāra-bodhinī).