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while defining a Gāthā at VJS., 4.1-2, does not mention either a Pāda or a Dala. Any way, that the author of the Kavidarpana considered Gīti, which is only a derivative of the Gathā, to be a Catuspadi is quite certain; since, at KD. 2.35 to 37 he defines a Dvibhangi which is an Asta-padi and two Tribhangis which are Dvādaśa-padīs, assuming in all the three cases that the Gīti which is the metre of the second or the third strophe, has four Padas. So the commentator is right in introducing v. 4 in chapter 2 with the words catuspadīm kulakena āha 'He defines the Catuspadi by a Kulaka'; the Kulaka here is a collection of five stanzas.
10. Having thus started with the Gathā, which is a sort of a Visama Catuspadī, the author now proceeds to define a few, i.e., 10 important Ardhasama Catuspadis in vv. 14-18, followed by 21 Sama Catuspadis, in vv. 19-26, under this Catuspadi Prakaraṇa. Among the Ardhasama Catuspadīs, Dohaka plays an important part, yielding five different derivative metres, one of which is, strictly speaking, a Sama Catușpadi (Samdohaka in v. 16), mentioned here incidentally, owing to its connection with the Dohaka. Out of the rest Pañcānanalalitā, Malayamāruta and Rāsa (v. 14) are unknown to Virahānka. The first two are unknown even to Svayambhū, who, however, knows the Rāsa and mentions it under the name Rāvanamastaka at Svayambhūchandas, 6.14. The last among these Ardhasamas is Māgadhikā, which is only another name of the Vaitālīya, when it is composed in the Māgadhi language according to Virahānka, VJS. 4.28; Kavidarpana does not lay down the condition of the language, but somehow tries to distinguish it from the Vaitālīya which is defined under the mixed metres in ch. 5 (v. 1), by mentioning only the Mātrās in the former, excluding the mention of the Aksara Gana which is prescribed for the latter. In short Māgadhikā is considered as a pure Mātrā Vștta and this is in keeping with what Hemacandra, too, has done.6 Next, the treatment of the Sama Catuspadi starts with the 6 metres of the Mātrāsamaka group which are usually defined among the Sanskrit Mātrā Vșttas.? All these have four Caturmātra Ganas in each of their four equal Pādas. Five more metres of the same length, i.e., having 16 Mātrās in each Päda, are further defined in vv. 21-22. As a matter of fact, we have only three such metres, namely, Muktavalikā, Vadana and Paddhatikā, whose constitution mutually differs only in respect of the Mātrā Gaņas which are employed in them. Hemacandra mentions this last metre, i.e., Paddhatikā, both among the Sanskrit and the Prakrit metres, but prescribes the restrictions as above only for
6. See his Chandonuśāsana, 3.62 (Jayadāman, p. 106). 7. See Jayadāman, Introduction, pp. 28-29. 8. See note on the passage.
