End Notes
1 Conjuncts are also sometimes simplified to comply with the needs of the metre.
2 Strictly speaking these are three classes of Akkharacchandas (syllabic) metres. Besides these there are also Mattàchandas and Gaõacchandas metres, which are treated together later under the rubric Jàti (639).
3 That is, the 17 kinds listed by Vuttodaya. Normally 26 kinds of metres are listed in the prosodies, from 1 syllable up to 26; and then there are the Daõóaka class of metres, from 27 syllables upwards.
4 Again these statements about the number of metres in each class only refer to what is found in Vuttodaya; in VÔttnaratnàkara, for instance, there are three metres in the Gàyatrã section, and in my edition of that text ten more are found among the variant readings.
5 Text: Bhujagasusu.
6 This description agrees with (iv) Rummavati above, as it does in Vuttodaya. According to the Sanskrit prosodies however, Campakamàlà is distinguished from that metre by having a caesura after the 5th syllable.
7 Text describes the last syllable as being long (Ü), but Vuttodaya states to marà lca, (this metre has) tagaõa, magaõa, ragaõa, and a short (light) syllable.
8 This is sometimes listed amongst the Panti class of metres, having the scheme ÜÜÛÐÛÜÛÐÛÜÛÐÜ.
9 Text: Upavajirà (cf. Sanskrit Upendravajrà).
10 Text: Sumukkã.
11 Text: Vàtummissà.
12 Text: Surasasirã.
13 Spelt Jagati in the text against its earlier spelling Jagatã. Same with Atijagatã below.
14 Accidently described as having 22 syllables in the text, through repetition of tagàna towards the end of the line.
15 Text: Viparitapubba.
16 Text has: Remark. The Aparavutta corresponds to the Vetàliya explained, referred to lower down (sic); but this is incorrect, Aparavatta is only one specific kind of Vetàliya, many other are possible.
17 Text: Yavàdikàmatã.
18 Text describes the 2nd seat in the second and fourth pàdas as being ÛÜÛ; but Vuttodaya states: yo 'õõavà, yagaõa (ÛÜÜ) after four (syllables).
19 Text: eight, owing to a mistake in interpretation regarding numbers (v) & (vi).
20 Text describes the second seat as ÛÜÅ; but Vuttodaya: ojesu jena, jagaõa (ÛÜÛ) after four (syllables).
21 Text describes the second seat as ÛÜÜ, which would make it the same as Capalàvatta above; Vuttodaya makes it clear that the na-, bha-, ra-, and ta-vipulàs have two forms according to whether we follow Setava or Piïgala, Setava has the same scheme for these variations in all four lines; Piïgala has it in the first and third pàdas only (the second and fourth being ÅÐÅÅÅÐÛÜÛÐÅ).
22 Both of these descriptions are omitted as they are mistaken in the original, where it states, quite erroneously that in the Vipulà of Setavà pàdas 1 & 3 should be ÅÐÅÅÅÐÛÜÛÐÅ; and pàdas 2 & 4 ÅÐÅÅÅÐÛÜÅÐÅ. The Vipulà of Piïgala is described as having pàdas 1 & 3 ÅÐÅÅÅÐÛÜÜÐÅ; 2 & 4 as being ÅÐÅÅÅÐÛÜÛÐÅ; with the remark that ßthis metre (vi) is also called Pathyàvattaû.
23 Text describes this seat as ÛÜÅ; but Vuttodaya: To 'õõavà, tagaõa (ÜÜÛ) after four (syllables).
24 The text omits to describe the Mattàsamaka metres, which consist of different varieties of metre with four gaõas having four mattas to the gaõa. It appears they do not exist in any extant Pàli texts.
25 It should be noted that this is simply an example, any other schemes are possible.
26 Text here reads: In the third seat, the following feet may be found instead of the iambus: ÛÛ pyrrhic ÜÜ spondee ÛÜÜ bacchic ÛÜÛ amphibrac. However, the spondee and amphibrac are, in fact, never found in any Vetàliya metre, except by corruption; the 1st pyrrhic never occurs as the last syllable is always lengthened no matter what its natural weight is. The 3rd variety listed is a seperate metre known as Opacchandasaka.