AKyAyikA 1 A species of prose composition, a connected story or narrative; AKyAyikA kaTAvat syAt kavervaMSAdikIrtanaM . asyAmanyakavInAM ca vfttaM gadyaM kvacit kvacit . kaTAMSAnAM vyavacCeda ASvAsa iti baDyate . AryAvaktrApavaktrARAM CaMdasA yena kenacit . anyApadeSenASvAsamuKe BAvyarTasUcanaM . S. D. 568. Writers on Rhetoric usually divide prose composition into kaTA and AKyAyikA and make a distinction between them thus they regard Bāṇa's harzacarita as ( pb ) an AKyAyikAM and kAdaMbarI as a kaTA ; according to Daṇḍin, however, ( Kāv. 1. 28 ) there is no distinction between the two: tatkaTAKyAyiketyekA jAtiH saMjYAdvayAMkitA . . 2 Narration (of what is known).