===> [ alaMkAra ]3[ alaM-kAr'a ] m. the act of decorating, R ii, 40, 13, (ifc. f. R. 18, 6) ornament, decoration ŚBr. TBr. &c. (in rhetoric) an ornament of the sense or the sound (cf. [ arth^al° ] and [ zabd^al° ]) (1) ([ ataMkAra ]) [ -kArikA ] f. [ -kaustubha ] m. [ -candrika ] f. [ -cUDAmaNi ] m. [ maJjari ], [ -mala ], [ -muks^avalI ], different works on rhetoric (2) [ -vatI ] f. ` the decorated one ', N. of the ninth Lambaka in the Kathāsaritsāgara,