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[BRIEF NOTES
prohibited at the 2nd and the 5th Amśas where a Caturmātra in general is prescribed by the words Vāraṇa and Yodha in the Bhadra. V. 45: The same is true of the 2nd Amsa of the Kadru, where a Madhyaguru Caturmätra is not prohibited even though a Caturmātra in general is prescribed by the word Turanga.
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V. 53 The commentator deduces a general convention, here, that a Caturmātra should be Antaguru when prescribed at the end of a line. Among the Dvipadis defined in this Niyama the following are repeated under different names in Niyama IV :-Raktā (v. 7) = Kheṭaka (IV. 76); Nandini (v. 20) = Chittaka (IV. 54); Vijaya (v. 18) Manorama (IV. 82); Pathyā (v. 24) Śālabhañjikā (IV. 79); Śri (v. Bhramarāvalī (IV. 61); Saumyā (v. 27) Ramaṇīyaka (IV. 26) = Sampiṇḍitā (IV. 89). Similarly the following Dvipadīs are virtually Varna Vrttas though they are described as Mātrā Vṛttas :-Aśvakrāntā (v. 32-33); Nandini (v. 20); Māninī (v. 8); Raktā (v. 7); Śrī (v. 21); and Sangatā (v. 34). It is seen from Virahanka's remarks at II. 16 that at his times the Viṣama Dvipadis had become obsolete; but even the remaining 52 Dvipadis had become so at the time of Hemacandra who merely refers to them in a casual manner in his commentary on Chandonuśāsana IV. 56 and says: "They have been defined by some, but have not been separately treated by me, since they are somehow and somewhere included in the other metres defined elsewhere by me.'
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NIYAMA IV
V. 1: There are 16 Amśas in a Gāthā of which the 8th and the 16th consist of a single long letter each; as a matter of fact these are the last Amsas in each of the 2 Ardhas of which the Gatha consists, like the Gitikā defined at II. 2 above. The 14th Amśa, i.e., the 6th in the 2nd half, consists of a single short letter, while the 6th Amsa in the 1st half must either be a Madhyaguru (ISI) or a Sarvalaghu (IIII) Caturmätra. All the other Amśas should consist of any kind of Caturmätras. But as said at I. 23 above a Madhyaguru must not be used at the uneven Amsas of a Gāthā. For other details, see Jayadaman, Introduction p. 25 where Arya is only a Sanskrit name of the Prakrit Gāthā.
Vv. 2-8: The 26 varieties of a Gatha are obtained by removing 1 long letter and substituting 2 short ones in succession, from the shortest among them which contains only 30 letters of which 27 are long and
