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now lost interest in her and wants some excuse to break off with her. See HPk. 6.19.45 for similar thought.
8: "There are five Pādas in all in the Matrā metre; among them in the even ones there are three Caturmatras. In the other ones there occur two Pañcamātras, a Caturmātra and a Dvimātra (in succession). But (the Caturmatra) in the third place of the odd Pādas, excepting the first, shall not be an Adya-guru, an Antya-guru or a Sarva-guru.' This definition entirely agrees with that of Hemacandra at HPk. 5.17, but much differs from that of the Kavidarpana, Kd. 2.27-28; see notes on this last. Instead of 16, 12, 16, 12, 16 of our Matra, Kavidarpana has 15, 11, 15, 11, 15 Mātrās in the five Pädas of a normal Mātrā stanza. 8.1 'He, i.e., Rama, had monkeys for his friends, the ocean was very difficult to cross. But even that was bridged with a dam of blocks of stones. As in the case of Rāma, glory is achieved by a man who is active.'
9:
'If in the second or the fourth Pādas a Pañcamātra is employed at the very first place (i.e., in place of the first Caturmatra), that Mātrā is called Mattabālikā; if a Trimātra is employed at the third place (i.e., in place of the third Caturmatra), it is called Mattamadhukari.'
9.1:
"The source or origin of the white and the blue lotus is the same; still the moon alone gives delight to the bed of the blue lotuses and the sun alone to (that of) the white ones. A fruit is necessarily obtained by a person from another, in accordance with what he had deposited with him.' Here the Lakṣaṇa of the Mattabālikā is seen in the second Pāda only.
9.2 "The roads are full of mud, the sky displays the rainbow; the grounds are wet, the water is tasty; the clouds are thundering, the lightning is repeatedly flashing in the quarters. And then thereafter, causing infatuation to the minds of the travellers, the beautiful rains have started.' Here the Lakṣaṇa of the Mattabālikā is in the fourth Pāda only.
9.3:
I do not understand the significance of the stanza. It is an example of Mattabalika which has its characteristic in both the second and the fourth Pādas.
9.4 "The night gives pleasure to couples (as a rule); but if it is so, why is the poor Cakravāka alone separated (from his mate) at that time? It is one's own former action that yields its fruit; none can give to any one, nor take away from him (unless he has already worked out
