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§§ 14-15 1
सवृत्तिकः कविदर्पणः
xxi
sense
a
on
2.2
Ardhas and not Pādas are excluded from it. Bharata does not define the Mātrā Vṛttas separately, nor does he classify metres under three heads, namely, Sama, Ardhasama and Viṣama. But he certainly included Vanavāsikā, which he defines as a Mātrā Vṛtta at 16.146, under Vṛttas; this is clear from the word vṛttajña occurring in the same stanza and also from the word Vṛtta which he uses with reference to it at 16.151. Here at the latter place, he makes a distinction between the Vṛttas and the Aryās; but at 16.168 again, he seems to use the word Vṛtta in the of based on Mātrā or general metre, whether Varna. On the other hand, he calls the 26 classes of the Sama Varna Vṛttas by the name Jāti at 32.34-39. This is also done by Hemacandra in his commentary Chandonusāsana (idānīm ekākṣarādyāḥ saḍvimchando-jātīr aha) and 3.3 satyakṣarāvasānāḥ (anuṣṭubhi aṣṭāṣarāyām jātau). Jayadeva closely follows Pingala and even he seems to use the word Vṛtta in a broad sense at JD. 4.29 and 8.3 ff., so as to include even the Mātrā Vṛttas. His commentator Harṣața actually uses the word Matra-Vṛtta while explaining the Vaitaliya at JD. 4.15 (p. 15, 1. 10), and calls the metres of the Mātrāsamaka group by the name Vṛtta while explaining JD. 4.24-29 (p. 17, 11. 6, 11). Harṣața uses the word Matra-Vṛtta again in his commentary on JD. 7.34 and 8.1. Virahānka, too, does not use the word Jāti to signify the Mātrā Vṛttas and the word Vṛtta to signify Varna Vrttas exclusively, even though the title of his work, namely Vṛtta-jati-samuccaya, may mislead one to think so. For, the word Jāti occurring in the title of his work clearly means 'a class, a division' and nothing more. He himself uses the words Mātrā-Vṛtta and Varna-Vṛtta at VJS., 1.3 and 6.45, Mātrā-Vṛtta alone at 4.65, 6.18, 35, 36, 37 and Vṛtta alone in the general sense of a metre at 4.108-109; 6.12, 26, 29, 32, etc. Hemacandra attempts to follow Dandin and Halayudha and distinguishes between Vṛtta and Jati in his commentary on Chandonusasana 1.11 (vṛttam: prag matrachandobhyo yad abhidhasyate tad vṛtta-samjñam jñeyam; mätra-chandāmsi tu jātir iti prasiddhāni). He also refers to the name Jāti in the sense of Mātrā Vṛttas only in his commentary on Chandonusasana 8.2; but he actually uses the awkward compound word Mäträ-Vṛtta at Chandonusāsana 8.15, which word is, strictly speaking, against the distinction which he tries to make between Vṛtta and Jāti. On the other hand, we have also seen above, how he uses the word Jāti to signify a class of the Varna Vṛttas like Uktā, Atyuktā and others. Kedara, author of the Vṛttaratnākara, does not refer to this distinction at any place and includes the Mātrā Vṛttas under the term Vṛtta occurring in the title of his work. At Vṛttaratnakara 1.21, he accordingly promises
