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[BRIEF NOTES
a new word must begin with the first letter itself. The defining stanza itself illustrates this; in the first half, both the 6th and the 7th *Caturmatras consist of all short letters. Similarly, the 5th Caturmātra in the second half consists of all short letters; of these, a new word begins with the 2nd letter in the 6th, while it begins with the very first letter in the 7th of the first half and the 5th of the second half. (The 6th and 7th Gaņas in the first half are: u kunaha and uvalida, while the 5th in the second half is iha tala.) The commentator remarks that v. 5 is an old Gāthā which is both definitive and illustrative; this seems to mean that our author has reproduced
it from some older source. V. 6 : 'The total number of all the kinds of that (Gathā), obtained by a
mutual multiplication of all the possible varieties of each of the 16 Ganas of a Gāthā is 8 crores, 19 lacs and 20 thousand.' A Caturmātra can be of 5 different kinds in view of the different arrangement of its short and long letters, as said at 1.2 above. Out of the 16 Ambas or Ganas of which a Gātha consists, all the 5 kinds are allowed at all the even places except the 6th and the 14th as we saw above, in v. 4; while, at the odd ones, only 4 are permissible, since the Jagana is prohibited there. At the 6th place, only 2 kinds are allowed and at the 14th only one is possible, namely, a single short letter. All these different figures (Gaņa-bhedas) are to be multiplied together for obtaining the total number of all the possible varieties of a Gāthā, caused by an ever-new arrangement of short and long letters in them. Sec Virahanka, Vșttajātisamuccaya, 6.53.
V. 7 : 'A Gāthā which has a Yati after the 3rd Gana in both the halves, is
Pathyā; that which is not so, is Vipulā. A Capalā is (characterised) by the Jagaņas at the 2nd and the 4th places, surrounded (i.e., preceded and succeeded) by a long letter.' In the Pathyā, a word must end with the 3rd Gana in each half, whether that word is one with a case-ending or is a part of a compound word; but in a Vipulā, a word is distributed over the 3rd and the 4th Caturmātra Gaņas, in one or both the halves. On the other hand, while the 2nd and the 4th Gaņas in one or both the halves of the Capalā must be Jaganas, its 1st must be an Antya-guru, the 3rd a Sarva-guru and the 4th an Adi-guru, in one or both the halves.
V. 8: ‘Both Vipulā and Capalā are of three kinds each (according as
these characteristics appear in the two halves, jointly or singly), namely, Sarva, Mukha and Nitamba; many other kinds of the Gathā
