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UDDEŠAS 1-2 ]
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samudrādau for gakārādau ; this means that the earliest Yati in the middle of a Pāda comes after the 4th letter according to Halāyudha, while according to Hemacandra, it can come even after the 3rd (Hemacandra's symbol for 3 being ga according to Chandonuśāsana 1.16). Among the illustrations, Nos. 26 and 30 are supplied by the commentator himself, while the others are borrowed either froni Halāyudha or from Hemacandra. In No. 30 which is in Āryā metre, the pleasant Yati according to the commentator is after the 5th Mātrā Gana; so that a single letter should not be dragged into it from a word belonging to the sixth Gana ; but this is what is done in it and so it is not admissible. Here it is that the commentator quotes a stanza from Svayambhū (1.71) according to which Yati is not regarded as compulsory even in the Sanskrit Varņa Vrttas according to some ancient writers like Māndavya, Bharata, Kaśyapa and Saitava. Incidentally, while commenting on this stanza, he mentions a threefold classification of metres into Sanskrit beginning with Uktā, Prākrit beginning with Ripucchandas and Apabhraṁsa beginning with Utsäha ; this is according to Hemacandra's Chandonuśāsana, but it is not followed by the author of the Kavidarpana, who does not base his classification on language and hence does not define the Prakrit and the Apabhramsa metres separately, though he assigns a separate chapter to the Sanskrit Varna Vrttas. His threefold division of metres is into the Mātrā, the Varna and the Ubhaya Chandases and this is based on the triple unit of scansion, namely, the Mātrā, the Varna and both combined.
UDDEŚA II
V. 1: The Mātrā Vrttas are divided into 11 classes according as they
contain 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 16 Pādas in them. Among these the first four are simple metres, while the last seven are strophic couplets, triplets or quartets. But even some of the Şatpadīs are strophic couplets and at least one kind of the Aştapadi
is a simple metre. Vv. 2-3: Among the Dvipadis, the two Ullalas, the Kumkuma and the
Karpūra, which are the favourite metres of the Magadhan bards and are essentially Apabhraíśa metres, are defined here at the commencement. The former, i.e., the Kumkuma, contains 2 Dvimätras (kadugaṁ), 1 Caturmātra (to), 2 Dvimātras (kaduga), 1 short letter (lahu), 2 Dvimătras, 1 Caturmātra, 2 Dvimātras and 2 short letters
