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[INTRODUCTION
the couplet to its constituent as in the case of the Dvipadi.30 The 4th or the Khidyitaka is nothing but the Vamśapatrapatita of Pingala and others, while the 5th or the Vidyudvilasita and the 6th or the Nanditaka are almost identical; both contain 2 Saganas in each of their Pādas, but the Nanditaka has an additional long letter at the end of each Pāda. There are no corresponding metres defined either by Pingala or his followers. The 7th is the Kṣiptaka which is used in vv. 24 and 25; as a Varna Vṛtta this is the same as the later Rathoddhata, but the Kṣiptaka in v. 24 is considered by Jinaprabha as a Matrā Vṛtta, while that in v. 25 is described by him as Varna Vṛtta containing the Akṣara Gaņas ra, na, ra, la, ga, i.e., the same as in the Rathoddhata. The 8th and the last is the Dipaka Adila, which Jinaprabha describes as a Kṣiptaka, possessing a common rhyme for all the 4 Padas. When considered as a Mātrā Vṛtta the description would be correct; but the evident Varņa Sangīta in it shows that it is nothing but the later Svāgatā having the Akṣara Gaņas ra, na, bha, ga, ga in its Pādas, where, however, the usual freedom enjoyed by the Prakrit poets of replacing a long letter by 2 short ones is quite evident in Pādas 1 and 4. I consider the names Khittaya and Divaya (Kṣiptaka and Dipaka) given in the mss. at the end of vv. 24, 25 and 26 as the older or at least alternative names of the Varna Vṛttas known later as Rathoddhata and Svagatā. The appendage Adila in the case of the second name, i.e., Dipaka, signified, not a new metrical formula31, but only an aspect of it connected with rhyme, as seen from the remarks and prescriptions of Virahanka, Vṛttajatisamuccaya, 4.32, 33, 34; Chandaḥkosa, v. 41; Svayambhuchandas, 4.29.
31. Nandişena employs six Mātrā Vṛttas of the Sama Catuṣpadi type, where in some cases, however, there is a partial restriction about the use of long letters at certain places. Thus he employs 1. Kisalayamālā in v. 19 whose Pādas contain 27 Mātrās each, where we have first, 5 Caturmätras of any kind, followed by a Jagana, a short and a long letter at the end of all. This metre is similar to Hemacandra's Kāmalekha at Chandonusasana 4.59 and Virahanka's Malati at Vṛttajatisamuccaya 3.35; but there is a slight difference at the end of the Päda. The last 7 Mātrās in the Kamalekha and the Malati are made up of a Madhyalaghu Pañcamātra (SIS) and a long letter, while in our metre they are made up with a Madhyaguru Catur
30. See Vrttajatisamuccaya, Introduction, para 5.
31. See notes on KD. 2.21-22 for a discussion on the name Adilă; it seems to have been used as a common name for many different metres, like the names Galitaka, Khañjaka and Rasaka. Also see JBBRAS., N. S. Vol. 19, 1943, p. 29, last four lines, and Bhayani, Introduction to Sandeśa Rāsaka (Singhe Jain Series, Bombay, 1945), p. 51.
