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xiv - सवृत्तिकः कविदर्पणः
( INTRODUCTION the Sanskrit, but not for the Prakrit one. The remaining two metres of this group of five are Aạilā and Madilā; these are exactly identical with Vadana in their constitution, but Vadana has no rhyme, Adilā has two different rhymes for the two halves, while Maạilā has only one common rhyme for all the four Pādas. Ten more Sama Catușpadīs are next given in vv. 22-26; they are :-Khanda with 13 Mātrās, Madanāvatāra with 20, Galitaka and Rāsāyalaya with 21, Khañjaka and Rāsaka with 23, Candralekhā, Vastuvadana and Utsāha with 24 and lastly Dvipadi with 28 Mātrās in each of their four Pādas.10 Regarding the names Galitaka, Khañjaka, Sirsaka and Rāsa, the commentator quotes a conventional rule according to which 'All metres except Gāthā, Dandaka and the like, are generally called Galitakas; all Galitakas are generally called Khañjakas when they have the Anuprāsa and rhymed Pādas. All Khañjakas when coupled with one, two or even three metrical stanzas, are called Sirsakas and, finally, all Mātrā Vịttas (Jātis) may get the name Rāsa'. Regarding the last, the commentator quotes an old authority, already quoted by Hemacandra, Chandonuśāsana 5. 3, which means :-'All Jātis are employed here in view of their constitution; Rāsābandha is indeed an elixir among the assemblies of elderly persons'.11 The author wholly neglects the Antarasamā and the Samkirna Catuspadis, but the commentator mentions them on v. 31 below while explaining the name Chaddanikā and quotes from the Chandahkandali in support. An Antarasamā has its 1st and 3rd, as also 2nd and 4th Pädas equal and similar; while the Ardhasama has 1st and 2nd as well as 3rd and 4th Pādas equal and similar. It will be seen that the Antarasamā itself becomes the Ardhasamā when its 2nd and 3rd Pādas exchange their places; also that the terms are used in a slightly unusual sense. Antarasamā is one, whose alternate Pādas are equal, while Ardhasamā is one whose Pädas are equal in each Ardha. Ordinarily, the term Ardhasamā is used for the so-called Antarasamā, meaning thereby that it has two equal and similar Ardhas, or halves, each of which is made up of two unequal lines. Each of these two main varieties of a Catușpadī, namely, the Antarasamā and the Ardhasamā, is of 55 kinds, according as one pair of their Pädas (1st and 3rd in the Antarasamā; 1st and 2nd in the
9. For the different significations of the words Adilā and Madilā, and the constitu
tion of their metrical lines, see notes on the passages. 10. See Vrttajātisamuccaya, Introduction, para 5 for a discussion of the name
Dvipadi as applied to a Catuşpadī metre; also see notes on the passage for the
constitution of the different metres. 11. Hemacandra, too, mentions this conventional rule about the names at Chando
nuśāsana, 4.40 com., 41 and 76; for the name Rāsaka see note on the passage and on VJS., 4.37-38.
