नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XVI. 9 ] METRICAL PATTERNS 263

Mālatī

5. [The metre with] the feet of six syllables of which the second and the fifth are light and the rest heavy, is called Mālatī¹.

Example :

6. śobhate baddhayā ṣaṭpadāviddhayā ।
mālatīmālayā māninī lilayā ॥

The offended woman wearing the Mālatī garland in which the bees are clinging looks charming.

Mālinī

7. [The metre with] the feet of six syllables of which the second one is light [and the rest heavy] is called Mālinī.¹

Example :

8. snāna-gandha-sragbhir vastra-bhūṣāyogaiḥ ।
vyaktam evaiṣā tvaṃ mālinī prakhyātā ॥

By your perfumed bath, [wearing of] garlands, [good] dress and ornaments you are clearly recognised as the wife of a garland-maker.

Uddhatā

9. [The metre with] the feet of seven syllables of which the second, the fourth and the fifth are light [and the rest heavy] is called Uddhatā¹.

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The allusion is perhaps to the foolish makara in the Vānara-makara-kathā in the Pañcatantra, IV. which really believed that the monkey had left its heart behind in the tree on the river-bank. Hence I translate the word as "dull-headed one."

5-6. (B.XV.9-10). ¹ Scheme (- ᴗ -, - ᴗ -) C. omits this metre.
7 (C.6, B.XV.6-7). ¹ Scheme (- ᴗ -, - - -). This is quite different from the metre Mālinī defined by Piṅgala and his followers. The NŚ. calls this second Mālinī (with 15 syllables in each pāda) Nāndīmukhī. See below 73-74.
8 (C.7, B.XV.8).
9 (C.8, B.XV.11-12). ¹ Scheme (- ᴗ -, ᴗ ᴗ -, -).
10 (C.9, B.XV.13).