98 PAUMACARIO out a whole Sandhi different fancy metres are used to break the monotony of the narrative frame. Many Varnavfttas of the Sk. prosody especially those characterized by a recurrent structural unit-are employed for this purpose. The language of all such passages in the Varņavſttas is more or less Prakritized. This prac- tice of the Ap. epic poets is obviously based upon the similar practice found in Sk. Mahākavyas. Four such variation metres are found in PC. I-XX. (25). Madanávatára. Scheme. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20). Occurrence. IIL 1, IX 12. Technically it is a Samacatuşpadi. Of course in the Kadavaka ít appears in couplets. The last Gana always ends in a long. All the Ganas show a pronounced amphimacer (-x-) tendency. This means that the forms x x x x x x and x x x are normally avoided. SC. VIII (3) treats this metre in a general way and illustrates it by citing PC. 24 2 1-2. For other metrical authorities see Bhayani, 1945, 58-59. The Madanávatāra is several times used in MP. and appears to be a favourite of the post-tenth century Ap. poets. It is found in Devacandrasūri's Sulasakkhānu (2. Kadavaka), Jayadevamuni's Bhāpanāsandhi (2., 4., 6. Kadavaka), Nemināthadvatrimśika (almost throughout) etc. (26). Scheme. a. 4 +1-(or 11) (= 8). b. 4 + 4 + 4 + U - (or (u)r (= 16). Occurrence. XVII 8. Technically the metre is of the Antarasamă Catușpadi type. But a rhymed distich being the unit of the Kadavaka it appears in a two lined form with the rhyme scheme a/b that is usual in the Kadavaka. The first Gaņa of the 8-moraic Pada avoids ti-U. Hence the odd Pāda corresponds with the Pādas of the Dvipadi Candra- lekhâ' (4 + (--(or VU)r) described by Hemacandra. The even Pada is that of the Paddhadia. It can be easily seen that the odd Päda is identical in structure with the last eight moras of the Paddhadiā-pāda. Looked at in this way the metre in question is just a combination of a truncated and a full Paddhadia-pada. The metre of MP. 13 10 is just the reverse of ours. There a is equi- valent to our b and vice versa. (27) Vilāsini. Scheme. 3 + 3 + 4 + 3+1-= 16). Occurrence. XVII 12 (XLVI 2). All the lines satisfy the schemes of Vilasini' and Bhüşaņa Gali- taka (5 + 5 + 3 + 1-). So the structure cannot tell us which of the two is the metre employed in the present case. But in RC. 71 2 it is called Vilāsiņi-chanda and Vilāsini belongs to that group (1) ca-la-da-lah Candralekhă/ Ch. VII 65. (2) tau cah tau Vilasini/ Ch. IV 60. (3) pau tau Bhûşană/ Ch. IV 37.
