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NIYAMAS 1-3] सटीको वृत्तजातिसमुच्चयः
14-15 enumerate the Ganasama and the Ardhasama Dvipadis respectively and v. 16 enumerates the Vişama Dvipadis which, however, are not defined in the sequel by our author as their form was indefinite. The commentator adds that they were discarded by great poets as their construction was not attractive.
NIYAMA III
In the introductory remarks to his commentary on v. 1 the commentator calls these Dvipadīs the 'Dvipadī-Vastukas', i.e., the Vastukas which are fit for being employed in the composition of a strophic Dvipadi. This would show that according to him the name Dvipadi was originally used to signify a strophic metre and then it was extended even to the constituents of it, though they were metres of 4 lines. For further discussion of the name, see Introduction, para 5. For the composition of these different Dvipadīs or rather Dvipadi-Vastukas, please refer to the Index of Prākrit metres given at the end. But the following additional points deserve to be noted in the case of some of them : V. 26: A Pada of a Racitā or Ratikā as the commentator calls it, should
have at its 4th and 5th Amśas a Pāņi or Kara Caturmätra (IIS) as a general rule; but other Caturmātras are not prohibited. Similarly a Vipra may be allowed in place of Narendra at the 6th Amśa. For this latter direction which is of a general application, see below
IV. 107. V. 33: The Gitikā is added by the author for completing the definition of
an Aśvakrāntā, very likely because the name of the metre could not be accommodated in the defining stanza No. 32. We might compare
the author's remark on the name Nārāca at IV. 58 below. V. 35: In the Pādas of Mālati the Madhyaguru or the Stana Caturmätra
(ISI) is not forbidden even at the uneven Amśas. The direction is
needed in view of the author's direction at I. 22 above. V. 40: In the Pādas of the Citra a Madhyaguru or the Narendra or Stana
Caturmātra is not prohibited even at the 5th Amśa, where a Catur
mātra in general is prescribed. V. 42: Similarly the Madhyaguru or the Narendra Caturmātra is not
1. The metre is either a Gīti (with the reading pãe for pāae in the 2nd half or a Gitikā with the readings mahuae and sohaammi in the 1st and harisaammi in the 2nd half of the stanza.
