________________ 244 : Prof. Walther Schubring concerned, the Dasav. stand closest to the new text; the diversity of the meters connects Isibhas. with it as well as with Utt. and. Suy., yet, against like in Dasav., the Slokas from the overwhelming majority. Besides them, there are only 13 stanzas of Vaitaliya and Aupacchandasaka-padas, 9 epic Tristubhas, and 11 Aryas. Some, on the whole unessential, findings regarding the sloka, will be mentioned below in the remarks to chapter 26; regarding Tristubha nothing is to be said. Among the Aryas, in which one includes 3, 4, f. with hesitation only, is one Giti, which occurs twice (12, 2-44, 16), while the old type, appearing in Ayara I (-Bambhaceraim) 9, Suy, I 4 and Utt. 8, is not found. Vaitaliya and Aupacchandasaks are only rarely represented in the canon. The main passage is the chapter Suy. 12, which accordingly is entitled Veyaliya from the metre. Its stanzas are on the whole correctly built, but on the other hand, Utt. 15!3 and Dasav. 10 have correspondingly questionable padas, and such are numerous in the Isibhas. too. Opposite Isibhas. 2,2 f. 8, 4;, 27, 2-7;, 28, 24;, 39, 5, where throughout irregularities or Aupacchandasaka, Tristubha, and Jagati padas occur, only 4, 22 and 27, 1 conform with the demands of the pure Vaitaliya, 8, 1, with the restriction that d is a Jagati-pada. In the same way, 27, 5 a, c 6b are Indravajra-padas is likewise known from Utt. and Dasav. In Utt. 15, they are la, 7a, 8a, 13 a c, 16 a d; or Dasav, 10, where also an Arya-pada and proseline have crept in, Leumann's foot-note (ZDMG 46, p 638) be referred. If in 3, 4f, the Aryas already just now indicated as doubtful, can at all be designated as such, they represent, in reality, a mixture of Aryas, Slokas, and perhaps also prose. In combination, the Arya appears in the shape of "Gahatriple-bars", as they have been called in "Wrote Mahaviras" p. 4 among the Vedha. Such is presupposed in the passage of 37 indicated by java. Short pieces of prose too are known to crop up between the Vedhas.14 Intermingling of prose with verses is found in grand style in the Bambhaceraim, the first part of the Ayara, into which the editor in his time endeavoured to bring some order, whole stanzas, half stanzas, and single padas alternate with unmetrical executions. Exactly the same picture of
