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[No. 4, 
The number of the possible variations of a metre may be determined 
either, (a) by adding together the top numbers of the columns as shewn in 
the preceding rule, or (b) by adding together the numbers placed beneath 
the short quantities plus one, according to the rule in v. 130, e. g : 
(a.) 1 + 6 + 15 + 20 + 15 + 6 + 1.= 64 
(b.) ^ v v/ 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 1 — 64 
1 2 4 8 16 32 
Thus 64 is the number of the possible variations of the Gayatti metre 
of six syllables in each quarter. 
v. 133. This rule lays down the space in inches, that is required for 
writing down the quantities in the several variations. The inches 
required must be double the number of variations minus one, 
thus the Gayatti having 64 variations would require for each 
quarter verse 64 + 64 = 128 — 1, or 127 inches, 
v. 134. Sila Thera. Moggallana. The author of this treatise was a 
disciple of Sariputta, otherwise called Sila Thera. 
Rhyming metres find no place in this work; reference, however, is 
made to a kind of word-repetition termed yamalca in the author’s Subodha- 
lankara {Easy Rhetoric), vv. 26 to 52. # This kind of word-rhyming or 
word-matching is twofold— 
( a ) isolate, ( yyapeta ). 
( b ) corporate ( avyapeta ). 
and has many varied combinations, either kind being found separately, or 
in conjunction, anywhere in the stanza. 
Besides the instances given in the Subodhalanlcara, vv. 28—31, the 
Tiled of that treatise gives six stanzas wherein the subjoined w r ords in italics, 
occur in the same place in each line of their respective stanzas. For bre¬ 
vity’s sake, one line only of each stanza is here given. 
1. manam manam satthu dadeyya ceyya. 
2. yato na tena te pito siyum na tena te subha. 
3. veneyyenettha guna sajjanam janam. 
4. sabhdya sabhati na ce katham na. 
5. nabhas^m te pi surd vibhusita. 
6. jinanattiyam ye hi tdsa sitded. 
* J. A. S. B., Part 1, No. 2, 1875, pp. 96. 
