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1. To distribute in the form of a table the different quantities in the 
possible variations of a metre. 
2. To determine the structure of a variation, the row number of which 
is known. 
3. To determine the row number of a variation, the structure of which 
is known. 
4. To determine the number of those variations which respectively 
contain no long quantities, or one long, or two long, and so on. 
5. To determine the number of the possible variations of a metre. 
6. To determine the space requisite for writing down the possible 
variations of a metre. 
v. 128. te ca-m-ime; And these; (three alternations (vihappa) being 
understood). This is the reading of the Burmese MSS. “ te ca 
ime tayo vidhiyo yava sabbalahu go pado, tava kattabbo.” Vac. 
“ puna lahuto pubbe garu te ca ime tayo vidhiyo sabbala sabbala- 
hupada katabham; athava X X tato lahuto, garu pubbe pubbat- 
hane yeva pare panakkhara upari sadisa yevaty attho, evam ime 
akkhara kattabba, yava sabbala sabbalahupadassa avasananti, imas- 
mim ca vikappe “ garutevamime” ti patho “ garu iti evam ime 
“ ti chedo” Kav. 
This verse describes the mode of arranging 
in a table, the distribution of the long and short 
quantities in the possible variations of a metre. 
According to the rule all long quantities 
are set down in the first row, in each succeed¬ 
ing row, a short quantity must first be placed 
beneath the first long of the row above ; to the 
right of such short quantity, must be written 
quantities similar to those in the row above ; to 
the left of such short quantity, as many long 
quantities as may be required to fill up the row; 
and so on until a row of all short quantities is 
formed. Thus a metre, whose quarter verse con¬ 
sists of one foot, has two variations, a quarter 
with two, four variations, and a quarter with 
three feet, eight variations, and so on, the varia¬ 
tions increasing in geometrical proportion, as 
the quarter verse increases in length. 
v. 129. This rule determines the structure of a variation in the table, the 
row number of which is known. The Gdyatti has quarters of 
six syllables, let the structure of the tenth row be determined. 
Row number. 
The number of 
variations in a metre 
having three syllables 
in a each quarter 
verse. 
1 
2 
— 
— 
3 
— 
W 
— 
4 
— 
5 
— 
— 
6 
— 
7 
— 
w 
8 
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