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UDDESAS 4-6 ]
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Aparāntikās from the three Pracyikās, but not from the Udicyikās and Pravṛttakas, since the even Pādas in the case of these two latter are identical either with those of the three main metres or with those of the three Pracyikās; so in all we have only six kinds of the Aparāntikā.
V. 8: Caruhasini (similarly) arises from the odd Pādas (of all these metres).' This, too, is a Matra-Sama Vrtta and can be had in a similar manner from the three main metres and from the Udicyikās. In the case of the Pracyikā and the Pravṛttaka, their odd Pādas are identical either with those of the main metres or with those of the Udicyikās. So this too is of six kinds only.
V. 9: That is Dakṣinantika, where there stands a long letter after the first Mātrā in all the Pādas.' Thus we may get three Dakṣiņāntikās from the three main metres, three from the three Pracyikās, none from the Udicyikās and Pravṛttakas as these are included in the three which we get from the main metres, six from the six Aparantikās (i.e. those which are obtained from the three main metres and from the three Pracyikās) and only three from the three Caruhasinīs derived from the three main metres; thus we have only 15 kinds of the Dakṣiṇāntikās.
V. 10 Clever men should know that any metre is called Gāthā when it has a smaller or larger number of letters in its Pādas, or has a smaller or larger number of Pādas in it (as compared with those that have been described so far) among the three kinds of metres, and which has not been also defined by (prosodists like) Jayadeva and others.
V. 11: The number of letters in a metre is obtained by deducting the number of long letters from the number of Mātrās in it; the number of long letters is obtained by deducting the number of letters from them and the number of short letters is obtained by deducting twice the number of long letters from them.' The verse seems to be out of place here, since the next chapter deals with the six Pratyayas.
UDDESA VI
Vv. 1-3: "This chapter treats of the Pratyayas which are six in number and are enumerated in the first stanza. The commentator explains the word Pratyaya as pratiti-jananat pratyayāḥ: 'It is called Pratyaya because it causes conviction.' They are, so to say, proofs which show the correctness of a statement about the numbers and forms connected
