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सवृत्तिकः कविदर्पणः
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5th Sa-Ganas have their 2 short letters replaced by a long one each. The last Varņa Vștta defined in v. 46 is Nārāca; it contains only 4 pairs of short and long letters following one another in succession. This Nārāca is to be compared with the other two Nārācas in vv. 15-16. Short and long letters coming in succession seems to be the peculiarity of this metre. It is noteworthy that in all the Varņa Vrttas which are defined here, only one kind of the Akşara Gana is employed throughout a line and this is due to the fact that such metres alone can contribute to the Tāla Sangīta, which is an important factor of popular poetry including that in the Apabhramsa language.
24. We shall now take up the Mātrā Vșttas, first the Sama Catuspadī among them, in the ascending order of the Mātrās which a Pāda of these contains. Thus we have (1) Vijayaka (v. 19) which has 8 Mātrās distributed over 2 Caturmātras of any kind, in a Pāda. (2) Ekāvali (v. 47) has 10 Mātrās in a Pāda divided into two pañcamātras of any kind. This metre was definitely sung in the Tāla of 10 Mātrās. (3) Laghu Catuşpadī
(v. 40) has 15 Mātrās in a Pāda, the last 5 Mātrās consisting of a Pañcamātra. (4) Adilā (v. 41 ab) and (5) Madilā (v. 41 cd) contain 16 Mātrās each in a Pāda; they are generally divided into 4 Caturmātras of any kind, but in Adilā all the four Pādas have a common rhyme, while in the Madilā the two halves have two separate rhymes. (6) Bhinna Madilla
(v. 42) has similarly 16 Mātrās in a Pāda, but among the 4 Caturmātras which constitute the Pāda, a Ja-Gana or the Madhyaguru Caturmātra is to be avoided. Like Adilā, this Bhinna Madilla too has one common rhyme for all the Pādas. (7) Mālati (v. 49) also contains 16 Mātrās; but these are to be mostly made up of Trimātras and Pañcamātras, thus showing a short letter at intervals, compulsorily. There is one more metre which contains 16 Mātrās in a Pāda; it is (8) Paddhatikā (v. 36): This is the most popular metre of Apabhramśa narrative poetry. Its Pāda contains 4 Caturmātras of any kind, the last being a Madhyaguru. (9) Abhānaka (v. 17; cf. also v. 29 first half) contains 21 Mātrās in a Pāda; generally, any Caturmātra may be used, but a Pañcamātra must be avoided and the last three Mātrās are to be represented by three short letters according to a convention mentioned by the commentator. (10) Rodaka, also called Vastuka (v. 13; also cf. v. 12 first half, and vv. 31, 38 second half) contains 24 Mātrās in a Pāda; they are made up of 1 Şaņmātra, 4 Caturmātras and 1 Dvimātra at the end. The commentator also mentions Rāsakula as yet another name of the metre; but this seems to be a mere guess from the word at the end of the 4th line of the text. From the text itself it would
