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Lātanuprāsa is but a variety of Anuprāsa according to Hemachandra. It is a sabdānuarāsa and involves repetition of words and is a favourite of the people of the Lāța country (modern South Gujarat). Udbhata defines it as the repetition, owing to the difference of purpose, of the same words, as stems or forms or both, yielding different meanings, though their form and their original meaning is the same. It has five varieties. Mammatta explicitly states (K. P. IX. 81) that Lāțānuprāsa is Šābda (verbal), when the difference lies only in the import of words. Lāțānuprāsa thus is alliteration of the words (as different from that of single consonants), identical in form and sense but differing in import or application (Tātparya). It is popular in the Lātadesa. Others (like Vāmana) call it "Padanuprāsa". Vāmana deals with only two figures of word: Yamaka and Anuprāsa, in that order (VKAS 4.1). And he defines Anuprāsa as that similarity of letters which is different from Yamaka. The reason why he defines Anuprāsa in terms of Yamaka is not far to seek. For, Yamaka, in Vāmana's Language, is the repetition of words or letters, having multiple (more than one) sense, with regulation of place. However, only word can have multiple sense, not letters. And repetition of words having the same sense cannot come within the purview of Yamaka. Repetition of letters, then, will be the repetition of incomplete words or parts of words, which cannot have signification. Thus we have Pāda Yamaka. But Padanuprāsa is implied in Vāmana's gloss on 4-1-8.
To return to Hemachandra's treatment of Lāțānuprāsa, we notice that the words and their senses are the same but the connection is different. These words may be a noun or any other part of speech and may be repeated once or many times. This is a very straightforward way to explain the Lātānuprāsa and it is no wonder that this variety of Anuprāsa should be popular among the people of Lāța (Gujarāta). Mammata's Lāțānuprāsa comprises five sub-types (IX.82), 168
Yamaka is the second Sabdalamkāra treated of by Hemachandra (V.3). He defines Yamaka as the repetition in
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