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[BRIEF NOTES
given under Chandonusāsana 4.42-75 have the Pādāntya Yamaka without exception. Virahānka's Khañjaka at VJS. 4.18 is, on the other hand, entirely different. This latter is an Ardhasama Vștta whose odd Pādas contain a Caturmātra and a Madhya-laghu Pañcamātra (SIS), while the even ones have an addition of 2 short letters before this Pañcamātra. Sirsakas are couplets and triplets of stanzas in different metres and are a peculiarity of Prākrit and Apabhramśa poetry. As regards the Rāsaka the word seems to have different significations. It was applied to individual metres as also to short poems themselves as seen from VJS. 4.37-38. Several metres are defined as the Rāsakas by Hemacandra at Chandonuśāsana 5.3-15 after quoting a stanza, which is also quoted by our commentator, which says that all Jātis may be called Rāsas. See Introduction, para 10. Hemacandra, however, (and following him even our author in v. 14 above) seems to make a distinction between the Rāsa defined at Chandonuśāsana 5.16 and the Rasaka defined at 5.3 and the following. The same appears to be the case with Virahānka, who considers Rāsaka as the name of couplets or triplets or short poems, while he defines the Rāsa (with 16 Mātras in a Pāda) at VIS. 4.85. Svayambhū is not very clear on the point; but he seems to have used the same term Rāsa for both a short poem and a single stanza which contains 21 Mātrās in a Pāda, with the Yati at the 14th at Svayambhūchandas 8.24-25. This latter is identical with Hemacandra's Rāsaka (5.3), while his Rāsa is only as Ardhasama Catuspadi having 7 and 13 Mātrās in its odd and even Pādas. This Rāsa of Hemacandra (already defined by our author above in v. 14) is identical with Rāvaṇahastaka defined by him at 6.19.9. Our Rāsaka with 23 Mātrās in a Pāda is identical with that of Hemacandra'defined at 5.4. Svayambhū's Rāsaka with 21 Mātrās in a Pāda is called Ábhāņaka by Chandahkośa v. 17. A love poem of the Rāsaka class, called Sandesa Rāsaka is published in the Singhi Jain Grantha Mālā No. 22, Bombay 1945-46. This contains a large number of stanzas in a metre which is called Räsaka or Abhāņaka, by the commentator
who quotes Chandaḥkośa v. 17 in support. V. 24: "That is Candralekhikā where there are : 1 Şanmātra, 4 Catur
mātras and 1 Dvimātra (in a Pāda); and a Dvipadi is that where there are : 1 Şaņmātra, 5 Caturmātras of which the 1st and the 5th are either Madhya-guru or Sarva-laghu, and a long letter.'
Candralekhikā is really Candralekhā of Hemacandra, Chandonušasana 4.60, since, the latter's Candralekhikā is an Ardhasama Catuspadi with 15 and 10 Mātrās in its odd and even Pädas defined at 6.20.102.
