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portions which precede and follow the Yati) do not consist of a single letter. But, this (last kind of) Yati which takes place in the middle of a word must not be used at the end of a Pada (of the stanza).' The rule about the Yati in the middle of a Pada is that it must not be introduced earlier than at the end of the third letter after its commencement. All these rules about Yati hold good only in the case of the Sanskrit metres and our author follows the lead of Jayadeva and Pingala in this respect. They do not apply to Prakrit poetry (except in the case of the Dvipadis), where the Yati is merely a matter of convenience of the individual poets. Accordingly, all the illustrative stanzas in the commentary on these two stanzas are from Sanskrit literature and, generally, reproduced from Hemacandra's Chandonuśäsana, chapter I. In illustration No. 11, the Yati at the end of the first Pāda occurs at the end of a word, i.e., stoma, whose case, however, is dropped owing to its being a part of the compound. In the 2nd half of No. 11 and in No. 12 the Yati at the end of the Pada occurs at the end of a regular word; in No. 13, however, the Yati at the end of Pada 1 does not coincide with the end of a word and so ought to be condemned. In No. 14 the Yati at the end of the half of the Sloka is regular; but that in v. 15 is inadmissible since the word mandali is not an independent word, being compounded with the word in the next half. In No. 16, the Yati in the middle of Pada 1 and 2 is admissible as it occurs at the end of the 3rd letter. In Nos. 17 and 18 the Yati occurring in the middle of a word is admissible, since both the parts of the word which precede and succeed the Yati consist of more than 1 letter, but it is inadmissible in No. 19, since the part of the word rajati which precedes the Yati consists of a single letter namely, ra. This Yati in the middle of a word, though admissible with certain restrictions as described above, must not be resorted to at the end of a Päda; this means that a word must not be distributed over two Padas. This applies only to a single word and not to a compound one, and so the breaking up of the word nārāyaṇa and its distribution over the two Pādas is not admissible in No. 20.
Illustrations Nos. 21, 22, 23 and 27 constitute what is called the Yatyupaniṣat by Halayudha on Pingala's Chandassutra 6.1. Perhaps these stanzas were composed by Halayudha himself. Our commentator seems, however, to have reproduced them, from Hemacandra who has introduced a few verbal changes and one rather important change in them. In No. 21c Halayudha reads samudrădipadante ca for gädicchinnapadante ca and in v. 22b he reads
