or ekāvalī, f. a single row, single string of pearls or beads or flowers, &c., [Vikr.]; [Naiṣ.]; [Kād.] &c.; (in rhet.) a series of sentences where the subject of each following sentence has some characteristic of the predicate of the preceding one, [Kpr. x, 45]; [Sāh.] &c.; N. of wk. on rhetoric;