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it is called Udgrāhaka or Udgāhaka (v. 28). This is the same as Samdohaka of KD. 2.16. The next Ardhasama Catuspadi is Ghattā, whose odd and even Pādas respectively contain 18 and 13 Mātrās. As a matter of fact, this is clearly a șațpadi Ghattā whose equal halves have three lines each, containing respectively, 10, 8 and 13 Mātrās in them. This can be judged from the Yati and Yamaka at the 10th Mātrā in the odd lines of the defining and illustrating stanza in the Chandaḥkośa, v. 43. For the same metre, cf. KD. 2.29. Ratnasekhara has defined one more Ardhasama Catuspadī, namely, Besara or Sphuţa-Besara in v. 20. Its 1st and 2nd Pādas contain 16 Mātrās each, while 3rd and 4th Pädas have 15 Mātrās each. The two Vişama Catuspadīs which he defines are but a result of a combination of the lines of a Dohā and a Gāthā; thus a Verālaka (v. 33) has the first three lines of a Dohā followed by the last line of a Gāthā, which, by the way, is considered as a Catuspadi as at KD. 2.35-36. The second Vişama Vștta is the Cūdāmaņi; its first half is that of a Dohā and this is followed by the second half of the Gathā (v. 48). In addition to these simple Varņa and Mātrā Vșttas, Ratnasekhara defines seven strophic metres all of which are Dvibhangis or couplets. Of these Şagpada (v. 12), also known as Kāvya or Sārdhacchandas to Hemacandra, Chandonuśāsana 4.79 com., Kavidarpana 2.33 and Prākṣta Paingala I.120, is made up of a stanza in the Vastu or Vastuvadana or Rodaka or Kāvya24 metre coupled with an Ullāla Dvipadi which has 28 Mātrās in each of its two Pādas. The Ullāla is again employed as the second constituent of another strophic metre called Rāsākula (v. 29), the first being a stanza in the Abhānaka metre defined in v. 17. The third Dvibhangi is also a well known one and appears to have been in vogue from very old days. It is a combination of a stanza in the well known Apabhramsa metre Mātrā, called Rādhaka by our author and another in the other famous Apabhraṁsa metre Dohā. It is called Vastu by Ratnasekhara, (v. 34) and also by Kavidarpana, 2.35; but it is known as Radda to Virahānka, VJS. 4.31 and also to the Prākrta
ngala I. 133 ff. Hemacandra knows both the names. It is possible that our author's Rādhaka is another form of the name Raddā, here given to the first constituent of the couplet which is known by that name.25 There are four more Dvibhangīs defined by Ratnasekhara. They are: (1) Kun. dalika (v. 31), (2) Kundalini (v. 38); Candrāyaṇa (v. 32); and Candrāyani (v. 39). These can be arranged in two pairs ; in the first formed by KundaJika and Kundalinī, the second constituent metre is the Kävya which is the same as the Rodaka of v. 13, i.e., has 24 Mātrās in each Päda; but in the se
24. See above para 24, No. (10). 25. Like the name Dvipadi and Kāvya; see para 13 above.
