'riddle-play' - one of the extinct genres of Sanskrit drama, it seems to have been a comic exposition of riddles by a single person or enigma-contest by two opponents. It would probably have found its roots in the ritual brahmodya and the verbal contests of the sabhâ.î thyanga' element ( anga) of the vîthî' - thirteen such elements are defined by Bharata, to be subsequently defended and illustrated by Abhinava from romantic genres. Though the vîthî itself had disappeared, it seems to have left its imprint of round-about speech on the other genres.