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of the three chief metres and the three varieties of the Udicyikā. One more variety called Dakṣiṇāntikā is defined by our author; it has the 2nd and the 3rd Mātrā combined into a long letter in all the Pādas. This will be of 15 kinds as explained in the notes. Hemacandra defines three more metres under the Vaitālīya group; they are the Māgadhi, which is exactly the same as our Māgadhikā defined at KD. 2.18; Paścimāntikā which is made up of the odd Pādas of the Māgadhi; and Upahāsini which is made up of the even Pādas of the same metre. At the end of this chapter the author gives a method of finding out the number of short and long letters, (when any one of them is known), in the case of a Mātrā Vịtta, the total number of whose Mātrās is known. This really belongs to the sphere of the 4th Pratyaya or Laghukriyā as mentioned in the next chapter, which deals with them only in a perfunctory manner. Out of the six Pratyayas, which are enumerated at the beginning of the chapter, the author defines only two, namely, the Prastāra and the Samkhyā and these two, he explains only as connected with the Mātrā Vrttas.
