End Notes

1 It would have been better to compare all the verses with their Pàëi parallels, of course, and this was my original plan, but as most of the verse texts published in Pàëi, in both Eastern and Western editions, are unreliable, it would have required establishing the text of approximately 700 more verses to have come up with more reliable figures, a task which is beyond me at the present.

2 This number includes 25 verses of which there are 2 versions printed; and excludes the 5 uddàna verses, which have not been included in the analysis.

3 These are exactly the same 5 metres that are employed in the Pàëi Dhammapada.

4 See Piïgala 5.10; VÔttaratnàkara 43; & Vuttodaya 116.

5 See the Introduction to the Prosody of the Dhammapada.

6 See Piïgala 5.11.

7 This variation has resolution at the 5th syllable.

8 203e; 622a; 623a; 632a; & 633a (the last 4 lines being repetitions) all show resolution after the break at the 5th syllable.

9 The percentages here and in the tables which follow are (for the most part) rounded up to the nearest integer.

10 This falls away to about 5% in the Medieval period in both Pàëi and Sanskrit.

11 I have seperated the statisics for the Triùñubh from the statisics for the Jagatã, as the latter is much more Classical in its profile.

12 This verse is in perfect Upendravajrà metre, having the break Ü,ÛÛ throughout.

13 These breaks are very unusual as having a heavy syllable in 6th position. This sometimes occurs in Pàëi, but normally after a break at the 5th syllable, which doesn't occur in these lines.

14 In line with the rule of replacement (see An Outline of the Metres in the Pàëi Canon 1.16) there is always a word-break before the presumed replacement of 2 light syllables at the 6th in this break.

15 But not unknown, see 139ab, for resolution at the 5th.

16 Many of the irregular lines could easily be regularised by following the suggestions in the notes.

17 The discrepency between the number for the odd lines (194) and even lines (203) is accounted for by even lines occuring where we would expect to find odd lines.

18 This and the next line are included with the regular openings because, as I have shown in the Introduction to the Prosody of the Dhammapada, they seem to have been tolerated by the bhàõaka-s, and the 1st syllable must be counted as light, a phenomena I suggested calling pàdàdilahu.

19 Once again the statistics are very low for the Pàëi form of the metre as there are only 32 verses to compare. In the table I only show the most common forms and the irregular forms.

20 It is, I believe, significant that the secondary form of this line ÜÛÜÜÛÛ occurs in both texts.

21 See my An Outline of the Metres in the Pàëi Canon 2.11.

22 Which itself looks back, of course, to what must be an even earlier form of the metres.