Chapter VI
The
prabandhas that form de\hat{s}\hat{\imath}^1 (music), being born of the faces of \acute{S}iva^2
are said to be innumerable (and) are not known by those having scant
understanding.13
(360)
Drawing out of them those that are properly described with their
characteristics
Śrī Matanga Muni3 spoke thus, addressing the munis.
(361)
The first prabandha is named kanda, the second is vṛtta, the gadya form is
the third one (and) daṇḍaka the fourth.2
(362)
Varṇaka is known as the fifth one, the sixth is named āryā, gâthā is said to
be the seventh one and then
dvipathaka is the eighth.
(363)
They have spoken of
paddhadī as the ninth one, adilā is the tenth (and)
that catuspadi has been said to occupy the eleventh position.7
(364)
Dodhaka has been said to be the twelfth8,
totaka is the thirteenth9,
then the
fourteenth should be known as the prabandha named vastu.14
(365)
Then krauncapadais there (the fifteenth) and after that hainsapātis known
as the sixteenth. The seventeenth
prabandha is named \acute{s}ukas \~{a}rika.
(366)
.
Aśvalīla is the eighteenth11, one less (than twenty) is
gajalīlaka,
the
twentieth is simhalila12 (and)
śarabhalila is one more (than twenty).
(367)