JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. IV.—1877. 
Bali Studies. No. 2.—By Major G-. E. Fryer, Deputy Commissioner 
British Burma. 
II.—The Pali Text of the Vtjttodaya, or ‘Exposition of Metre’, 
by Sangharakkhita Thera, with Translation and Notes. 
Introduction. 
The Vuttodaya (‘ Exposition of Metre’) is the second metrical treatise 
written in Ceylon during the twelfth century by the Pah grammarian 
Moggallana, under his priestly title of Sahgharakkhita Thera. It is the 
only work on Pali prosody extant, and is founded on the Vrittaratnd/cara 
(Ocean of Metres), a Sanskrit work on post-vedic metres by Ivedara Bhatta. 
It contains 136 stanzas or portions of stanzas, divided into six chapters 
which treat of the following subjects : 
Chap. I.—The technical terms, and symbols in prosody. 
Chap. II.—Metres regulated by time. 
Chap. III.—Metres with quarter verses similar. 
Chap. IY.—Metres with half lines similar. 
Chap. Y.—Metres with quarter verses^dissimilar. 
Chap. VI.—The six problems. 
The work opens with the usual adoration to Buddha. Then follow an 
explanation of the technical terms, and a description of the various metres 
in Pali prosody. In the second, third, fourth, and fifth chapters, each 
variety is illustrated in its own metre. The sixth chapter enunciates the 
