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author (under his influence) at KD. 4.40 allow it even in the case of the following two metres, namely, Indravamśā and Vasastha. They also record a view of the elders, according to which all the Sama Varna Vrttas belonging to any of the 26 classes may have their Pādas mixed up to produce an Upajāti. Halāyudha too mentions this view in his commentary on Chandassūtra 6.17. An Upajāti resulting from the mixture of the Pādas of the Indravajrā and the Upendravajrā is alternatively called Indramālā according to Jayakīrti 2.117, Ratnamañjūsā 5.27 and Jānāśrayī 4.36. Similarly that Upajāti which arises from a mixture of the Pādas of the Vamsastha and 'Indravaṁsā is called Vamsamālā according to Jayakīrti, Chandonuśāsana 2.145 and Ratnamañjūşā 6.6.
18. The fifth chapter of the Kavidarpana treats of the Ubhayachandas, i.e., mixed metres which are partly Varna Vrttas and partly Mātrā Vịttas. They are 11 in number headed by the Vaitāliya. Sanskrit prosodists, including Hemacandra, define these metres under the Sanskrit Mātrā Vrttas, which have a few restrictions in respect of short and long letters.20 Out of the three groups of the Mātrā Vrttas, adopted by the Sanskrit prosodists, the author of the Kavidarpana has already defined two, namely, the Gāthā group and the Mātrāsamaka group in the second chapter under the Catuspadī Mātrā Vrttas. He has laid down a few restrictions regarding the employment of short and long letters at some places in the lines of these metres, and even mentioned the avoidance of an Aksara Gana like the Jagaña; yet he obviously does not consider them as mixed metres or Ubhayachandas, probably because, there is no employment of any positive Akşara Gana in any of them. On the other hand, Aksara Ganas like the Ragana, Yagana and the Bhagana are prescribed for the lines of metres in the Vaitālīya group. When, however, the Vaitālīya is defined as a pure Mātrā Vịtta under the name Māgadhikā, no Aksara Ganas are laid down at Kavidarpana, 2.18. This means that no long letters are prescribed anywhere, since the fixation of long letters alone is what distinguishes an Aksara Gana from a Mātrā Gana. A Mātrā is equivalent to a short letter and serves as a unit for measuring both the syllabic quantity of a Gana and the time which it may take in pronunciation. In Tāla Vrttas, the Mātrā measures the time which a particular Gana ought to take in recitation, while in the pure Mātrā Vịttas, it measures the total syllabic quantity, or, in other words, the total number of short letters which a Gana ought to have, regardless of the combination of any two of them into a long letter. It should also be noted, that in pure Mātrā
20. See Jayadāman, Introduction, p. 24.
