पृष्ठ 380, कुल 654 में से

पृष्ठ 380

·XVI. 158 ] METRICAL PATTERNS 295

The syllabic metres forbidden here after may be used in songs. I shall describe their varieties while treating the Dhruvās.

This is the definition of various syllabic metres briefly treated by me. Next I shall give the definition of the Aryās.
The Aryās are of five types, viz, Pathyā, Vipulā, Capalā, Mukha-capalā, and Jaghana-capalā.
I shall speak about their caesura and division of Mātrās and their varieties depending on Gaṇas which have been prescribed as characteristics of these.
In these metres the cæsura marks the division [of feet]; the Gaṇa consists of four Mātrās, the second and the fourth (lit. the last) feet are the even ones, and the first and the third (lit. the rest) odd ones.
[In an Āryā] the odd Gaṇas consisting of four Mātrās should have no ja and the even Gaṇas may be of any type according to the choice [of the poet].

156 a. The eighth Gaṇa in every Ārya is to be known as half a Gaṇa (i.e. two Mātrās).

The sixth Gaṇa may be of two alternative types and the eighth will consist of one [syllable]. The sixth Gaṇa in the second hemistich will consist of one Mātrā only¹.
In one alternative is that the sixth Gaṇa will be ja, (∪ – ∪,) and in the other it will consist of four short syllable, (∪ ∪ ∪ ∪) and these relate to the caesura (yati).


151 (C.150, BXV.194).	152 (C.151, B.XV.195).
153 (C.152, B.XV.196).	154 (C.153, B.XV.197).
155 (C.154, BXV.198).	156 (C.155, B.XV.199, 211, 208a).
157 (C.156, B.XV.200, 208b-209a).	¹ Read 157b (with C) as पश्चार्धे यो गणः षष्ठ एकमात्रः स उच्यते.
158 (C.157, B.XV.201, 209b-210a).