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ix the bards of Magadha, and the Mauktikadama. Of the two Ullālas the second, i.e., the Karpūra, appears to have been more commonly used and hence described as of 25 kinds, in view of the number of short letters contained in each of them. Thus, the shortest among these twentyfive contains only 8 short letters and 24 long ones, while the longest one has all, i.e., 56, short letters in it. In both the Ullālas no long letter is compulsory, but a short
senting the 13th Mātrā and 3 shorts representing the 26th, 27th and 28th Mātrā in the Karpūra (only the 26th and 27th in the Kumkuma) in each half is compulsory. The Yati in both the halves is after the 15th Mātrā and in practice even the 14th and the 15th Mātrās are represented by short letters for keeping a sort of balance between the concluding portions of three Mātrās in the two parts, caused by the presence of the Yati in each half. The third Dvipadi which our author defines is the Mauktikadāma. Here the Yati after the 12th and the 20th Mātrā in each half which has 32 Mātrās in all, is prescribed as compulsory. It is difficult to see why this particular Dvipadi is selected out of a very large number of them which are defined by Svayambhū and Hemacandra. Nor is the Yati very prominently felt in the halves of the illustration given by the author himself. Besides, the same Dvipadi is turned into a Şațpadi which has three lines of 12, 8 and 12 Mātrās respectively, in each of its two halves, merely when a Yamaka is introduced at the point of the 1st and the 2nd Yatis in each half. The author himself defines such a șațpadī at KD. 2.30. It is also noteworthy that this same name Mauktikadāma is given by Ratnasekhara in his Chandahkośa v. 6 to a Catuspadi which has 16 Mātrās in each of its four Pādas and is virtually the same as cur Dvipadi, but where there is only one Yati at the 16th Mātrā instead of our two at the 12th and the 20th Mātrās, a Yamaka being also introduced at the point of the Yati. Yet it must be pointed out that Ratnasekhara's Mauktikadāma is a Varņa Vrita with 4 Madhyaguru Caturmātras (or Jaganas) in each Pāda and must be traced to a similar Sanskrit metre noted by Hemacandra, at Chandonuśāsana 2.172. On the other hand, as seen from the illustrations of both our author and of Hemacandra, the Dvipadi Mauktikadāma shows preference for the Adiguru and Sarvalaghu Caturmätras, apparently avoiding the Madhyaguru Caturmātra or the Jagana.
8. The name Ullāla given to the first two Dvipadis is very interesting. Kavidarpaņa says that they belong to the Bandins or the bards; Hemacandra on Chandonuśāsana 7.3 mentions them as Ullālakas and ascribes them to the Magadhas, i.e., the bards of Magadha in particular, or perhaps the bards in general, as the terms Magadha and Māgadhikā (metre) were
