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xxx {| One of these stanzas (4. 9), a veritable metrical tour de force, embodies in its four lines, without extraneous matter of any kind, the names of the thirty-three Transitory States. The second āryā stanza at 4. 83 is defective in all previous editions, lacking one syllabic instant in the second half of the first line. As indicated in the notes on that section, I have remedied this by a very simple emendation of the text.
 * 1.|||3||āryā
 * 4||sragdharā
 * 6||indravajrā
 * 129||vasantatilaka
 * 2.|||105||upajāti
 * 3.|||65||vasantatilaka
 * 4.|||9||sragdharā
 * 15||āryā
 * 35||sragdharā
 * 44||āryā
 * 57||indravajrā (2 stanzas)
 * 79||vasantatilaka
 * 80||śārdūlavikrīḍita
 * 81||śārdūlavikrīḍita
 * 83||āryā (2 stanzas)
 * 90||vasantatilaka
 * 91||indravajrā
 * }
 * 44||āryā
 * 57||indravajrā (2 stanzas)
 * 79||vasantatilaka
 * 80||śārdūlavikrīḍita
 * 81||śārdūlavikrīḍita
 * 83||āryā (2 stanzas)
 * 90||vasantatilaka
 * 91||indravajrā
 * }
 * 83||āryā (2 stanzas)
 * 90||vasantatilaka
 * 91||indravajrā
 * }
 * 91||indravajrā
 * }
 * }

As might well be expected, Dhanaṃjaya has to resort to a number of expedients to round out his lines or to obtain the needful succession of light and heavy syllables. Perhaps the most natural of these, the use of ‘verse-fillers,’ is much less frequent in the Daśarūpa than in other works of this kind, because of the compact arrangement of the material. Instances, however, occur here and there; cf. 1. 27 (ākhya); 2. 49 b (tathā); etc. Transitional phrases (such as atha lakṣaṇam), which occur in the Bhāratīyanāṭyaśāstra with almost unfailing regularity, are similarly but little employed, the two chief cases being at 1. 38 and 1. 67. Great advantage in versification is gained also by the alternation of such verbs and verbal forms as syāt, bhavet, iṣyate, smṛta, mata, and parikīrtita. Another device, which is especially helpful in the metrical adjustment of enumerations and lists of technical terms, is the arbitrary grouping of words into copulative compounds. The most conspicuous example of this is undoubtedly the sragdharā stanza at 4. 9; others may be found at 1. 38 c, 67, 82, 97; 2. 15, 83 b; 3. 13; 4. 81 d.

To metrical exigencies also must be attributed the use of a large number of dramatic terms in varying forms, as well as the