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P. 4.1-5.1]
स्वयंभूच्छन्दः
"That indeed is a Viṣamaśīrṣaka when at the end of a Pada of the Mālāgalitaka pairs of Caturmatras in uneven numbers are added.
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For the Mālāgalitaka-only its illustration-see above ch. 2.1.1: It contains in its Päda a Sanmātra followed by 10 Caturmātras, of which those in the odd places shall not be Madhyaguru and those in the even places shall be either Madhyaguru or Sarvalaghu; see HPk. 4.25. Fo the Viṣamasirṣaka see HPk. 4.83. Our defining stanza is not correctly reproduced in the ms. It should have read mälāgaliaassa pāāvasāṇaammi a caără etc. In the defining stanza we have three pairs of Caturmātras added at the end of the Pada of the Mālāgalitaka; i.e., we have a Ṣanmātra followed by 16 Caturmātras in a Pāda. But in the illustration, seven pairs of Caturmātras are added, so that we have in each Pāda, a Ṣaņmātra followed by 24 Caturmatras. The stanza is incomplete, about seven Caturmätras in the last Pada being lost. It contains a description of some mountain, but it is unintelligible in many places.
After this a large number of folios of the ms. is lost; it is very difficult to say what they contained. Evidently they contained only what could be called Prakrit metres, since Swayambhu himself says at the end of Ch. III in the main work above (p. 51) and at the beginning of Ch. IV (p. 52) that the Präkrit metres were dealt so far. So from a reference to Hemacandra's Chandonusāsana, Chs. I to IV, we find that the only group of metres besides the Magadha Jati which forms the subject matter of the next chapter, that could have been defined and illustrated on these missing folios is that of the Vaitaliya and its derivatives. But this in itself could not occupy so many folios. Perhaps the figures showing the serial number of the folios are misread by me.
V. MAGADHAJĀTI
It is worth noting that Svayambhu defines and illustrates the Pādākulaka, which is nothing but a mixture of the different metres that are defined in this chapter, at the beginning instead of at the end of the chapter. Another thing that deserves notice is that Mātrāsamaka and other metres of the class are considered as belonging to the Magadha Jāti, i.e., the Class or Group of metres to which the Magadhikā belongs and this latter is certainly a derivative of the Vaitālīya. Virahanka says that Vaitālīya itself is called Magadhikā when it is composed in the Magadhi language, i.e., when the main characteristics of that language, namely the substitution of la and sa for ra and sa are present in it; see Vjs. 4.28:
