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.XV. 51] RULES OF PROSODY 257

41-42. This Rhythm-type which assumes the form of different syllabic metres, is the body of words. There is no word, without rhythm and no rhythm without word. Combined with each other they are known to illuminate the drama.

Twentysix Rhythm-types

43-49. [The Rhythm-type] with one syllable [in a foot] is called Ukta, with two syllables is Atyukta, with three syllables Madhya, with four syllables Pratiṣṭhā, with five syllables Supratiṣṭhā, with six syllables Gāyatri, with seven syllables Uṣṇik, with eight syllables Anuṣṭup, with nine syllables Bṛhatī, with ten syllables Paṅkti, with eleven syllables Triṣṭup, with twelve syllables Jagatī, with thirteen syllables Atijagatī, with fourteen syllables Śakkarī, with fifteen syllables Atiśakkarī, with sixteen syllables Aṣṭi, with seventeen syllables Atyaṣṭi, with eighteen syllables Dhṛti, with nineteen syllables Atidhṛti, with twenty syllables Kṛti, with twentyone syllables Prakṛti, with twentytwo syllables Ākṛti, with twentythree syllables Vikṛti, with twentyfour syllables Saṃkṛti, with twentyfive syllables Atikṛti¹, and with twentysix syllables Utkṛti.

Possible metrical patterns

49-51. Those containing more syllables than these are known as Mālā-vṛttas. And the Rhythm-types being of many different varieties, metrical patterns according to the experts¹ are innumerable. The extent of these such as Gāyatri and the like, is being given [below] But all of them are not in use.

51-76. [Possible] metrical patterns of the Gāyatri [type] are sixtyfour, of the Uṣṇik one hundred and twenty-eight, of the Anuṣṭup two hundred and fiftysix, of the Bṛhatī five hundred and twelve, of the Paṅkti one thousand and twentyfour, of the Triṣṭup two thousand and forty-eight, of the Jagatī four thousand

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41-42 (C.39b-40; B.XIV.44b-45).
43-49 (C.41-47a; B.XIV.46-52a). ¹ also called abhikṛti.
49-51 (C.47b, 58b-59a, B.XIV.52b-54a). ¹ These experts are mathematicians like Bhāskarācārya. See Līlāvatī, section 84, (ed Jīvānanda, p. 50).
51-76 (C.59b-80a; B.XIV.54b-79).

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