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varieties of a Gathā, remarking that the author did not give them for fear of increasing the extent of his work. Most of these illustrative stanzas are stray verses expressive of the erotic sentiment (Nos. 10-27; 29-31; 34, 36 and 42-43) and a few are examples of religious or devotional poetry (Nos. 28, 32, 35, 37-41), while only one (No. 33) may be said to belong to the class of Heroic poetry.
V. 9: This stanza explains the formation of the four derivatives of the
Gāthā, viz., Gīti, Upagiti, Udgiti and Skandhaka. 'A pair of the first half of the Gāthā is a Gīti; but a pair of the second half is an Upagiti. When an inversion (of the two halves) takes place, there is the Udgiti, while the Giti itself becomes a Skandhaka when the 8th (Amsa also) is a Caturmātra (in each half). The commentator here explains how each of the three Gitis (i.e., Giti, Upagiti and Udgiti) is sixteenfold like the Gāthā. The sixteen kinds of the Gathā are shown by the commentator on v. 8 above. He quotes two Sanskrit stanzas in support, which are also quoted by Hemacandra (NSP. ed. p. 28B/Il. 1-3), explaining how the Āryā, which is the same as the Gāthā, is 64-fold. The iwo stanzas are perhaps borrowed by both from Halāyudha's commentary on Chandassūtra 4.23, with the necessary changes occasioned by difference of views about the Skandhaka as a derivative of the Gāthā. Halayudha counts the Skandhaka too as a derivative of the Gāthā, while Hemacandra and our author do not think so; so that according to Halāyudha the Aryā is 80-fold, while according to Hema candra and our author it is only 64-fold. The older name of the Skandhaka known to Pingala is Āryāgiti as noted by the commentator, who also tells us that the Skandhaka is of 29 kinds according as it contains a smaller or larger number of short and long letters. The shortest among them contains 4 short and 30 long letters in the two halves together, while the longest has 60 short and 2 long letters in them. The quotation which is alluded to here apparently contains names of these 29 kinds; but these names are quite different from those given either by Hemacandra or in the Prāksta Paingala. The subdivisions of the Skandhaka are, however, in accordance with those that are mentioned by Hemacandra; thus if the 6th Gana consists of a single short letter in both the halves, it is called Upaskandhaka, while it is called Utskandhaka and Avaskandhaka respectively, when the 6th Gaņa consists of a single short letter in the upper and the lower half. When one of the two halves is that of a Gīti and the other that of a Skandhaka it is called Samkirņa Skandhaka,
