________________ verbs and yielding three and a half crores of new verses when its constituent padas are combined in various ways." The ill. is borrowed from S. K. of Bhoja. ? It has different padas some are verbs, some are nouns either with Vocative-ending or with Locative endings or with Accusative-endings. Each quarter contains eleven padas. The metre is Bhujanga.vijtibhita. It yields three crores and a half verses in several metres. If the words in this verse are repeated due to confusion etc. it brings fourth ten crores of calf-verses. 3 (vi) Kama-dhenu (p. 219, 1. 17): As its name suggests, this verse should give rise to as many verses as you desire to have, by combining in several ways its constituent padas. As a matter of fact it does give rise to innumerable verses, when its padas are permuted. It is defined * as a verse which yields, at your sweet will, Parardha Parardha verses, when its padas are permuted in a number of ways. 1. सम्बोधनैद्वितीयान्तैः सप्तम्यन्तैः क्रियापदैः / श्लोककोटिरियं तिस्रः सार्धा धेनुः प्रसूयते // s. K. II. 122. . 2. स्थूलं दत्से सूक्ष्मं धत्से भुवि भवसि रभसि रमसे रमे दिवि मोदसे * छिन्त्से बाढं भिन्त्से गाढं रुषि मिषसि धनुषि मनुषे जये पुरि जुम्भसे। स्वल्पं शेषे कल्पं प्रेषेऽचिति चरसि यशसि यतसे चले युधि गल्भसे ब्रूषे वामं भ्रूषे कामं हृदि विशसि वचसि सचसे रुचे इशि दीप्यसे / S.K.II.v. 343 (P.293). 3. यदातु सम्भ्रमादिभ्यो भवन्त्यस्या द्विरुक्तयः।। स्थूलादिना तदा चैषा दशकोटीः प्रसूयते // s. K. II. 123. The detailed calculations are given in Viveka (P. 216, 1. 15 onwards). On P. 216, 1. 3 'वान्तेग्व। क्र इति न्यायेन / On P. 219 the reading (1.7) should be "शततमे नवनवति शतानि यावत् (as it is in ms. ग), This is an Arithmetic Progression and the nth term of an A.P. i.e. Tn = a+(n-1)d, where a is the first term (here, 0), d is the common difference (here, 100); so that the 100th term of this A.P.ie. T100= 0+ 100-1) 100%D9900. ..नवनवतिशतानि is the correct reading here. पदग्राहाद्यथाकामं कामधेनुरियं तु यः। परार्धानां परार्धानि प्रसूते श्लोकतर्णकान् // s. K. II. 124. According to this we get 101" x 10 = 100* number of combinations by permuting the padas of this Kama-dhenu.