A species of dramatic com- position; in it only one character is introduced on the stage which supplies the place of interlocutors by a copious use of ākāśabhāṣita q. v.; bhāṇaḥ syāddhūrtacarito nānāvasthāṃtarātmakaḥ. ekāṃka eka evātra nipuṇaḥ paṃḍito viṭaḥ.. S. [Page0812-c+ 56] D. 513; see the next stanzas also; e. g. vasaṃtatilaka, mukudānaṃda, līlāmadhukara &c.