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avasanam ti padanto saro ca yatha ; “ suriyuggamanam pati” tyadi, 
ime caturo sara garu ti datthabbam.” Vac. 1 
The Bupasiddhi has “ kvaci samyogato pubba ekarokara rassa iv, 
uccante yatha ; ettha, seyyo, ottho, sotthi.” Blc. 1. Chap. 1. Sutta 
5., but in the earlier commentary on Kaccdyana's Grammar, the 
Nyasa, no mention is made of this shortening of heavy vowels. 
padanto. This is the Burmese reading supported by the commentaries. 
Kavisdra has “ chandanurakkhattam padanto ti vuttam padanto ti 
pi patho,” but so long as a couplet of the Vatta class of metres con¬ 
forms to the principles of that class, it is immaterial what foot fol¬ 
lows the fourth foot in the odd quarter. 
vanlco # # uju. In Burmese, the mark for the short quantity in 
Pali prosody, is the number for one in that alphabet, and the mark 
for the long quantity is the number for two. 
mattUco. Consisting of a breve (matta). Equal in time to a snaj) of " 
the finger, a flash of lightning, or the twinkling of an eye. “ mat- 
tasaddo c’ettha accharasankhatam va, vijjutasankhatam va, akkhi- 
nimilasankkatam va, kalam vadati ti datthabbam, tatha pi tena mat- 
tena ekamatta rassa, dvimatta digha, addhamattika vyanjana ti” 
Nycisa Blc. 1. Sutta 4. 
v. 8. padadi. This rule refers to poetry measured by the time occupied 
in the pronunciation (mattavutti) , which is divided by pauses into 
quarters (padas). The illustration subjoined is in the Pathya metre 
of the Ariya class in which the pause is commonly restricted to the 
close of third foot. 
sannata leriyd. The shortening of the final a in sannata before two 
consonants, the last of which is the liquid r, resembles the muta cum 
liyuida rule, and th q positio deb ills of Latin prosodians ; e. g. inte- 
gri, (comp. Weber, Ind. Stud., Yol. viii). The stanza may be freely 
translated thus :— 
From the pleasure of seeing and hearing Buddha, springs 
a passion never sate. 
Who would not derive pleasure from a study so wondrous and 
sublime P 
The Chando. points out that this couplet illustrates the figure of 
Rhetoric called Transition (atthantaranydisa) , the introduction of 
another sense into a subject, (such as a moral reflection). The 
author describes this figure in his Subodhalankara ( Busy Blietoric) 
vv. 241 to 245. It is twofold, viz.: — 
1 It is also an established rule in Pali prosody that consonants may be doubled, 
in older to give prosodial length to a naturally short vowel {vide v. 134.) 
