________________ 42 Siri Sirivalakaha long, is made short. e. g. qui a avut. In the phrase forringfourt, the second case of this rule applies. We retain the conjunct consonant in the indeclinable for and hence the preceding vowels in forerurat is shortened. Now we have no established short vowel fort as we have for f and 3 for Jr, but by convention the short vowel for st is 3, and hence we get the phrase fumigfog. Similarly of. fortuga in st. 34. St. 22. मवपद, same as नवपदानि diseussed in st. 1. St. 23. This stanza enumerates the * Navapada' or the Nine Dignities. gror is a Pk. root in the sense of Sk. # to know. (see Hem. VIII. 4. 7.) St. 24. अट्ठारसदीस (Sk. अष्टादशदोष) * The Eighteen Faults.' They are enumerated by Nemichandrasuri in his Pravachansaroddhara sts. 457, 458. " अत्राण कोह मय माण लोह माया र य अरई य / निहा सोय अलियवयण चोरिया मच्छर भया य // पाणिवह पेम कीलापसंग हासा य जस्स इय दोषा / अट्ठारस वि पणट्ठा नमामि देवाधिदेवं तं // " Thus they are: (1) ignorance, (2) anger,
