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METRE
Both the MPC and the MPCH are composed in ārya metre. A number of verses in the former (98, 101, 280, 713, 957, 985, 1021, 1073, 1198, 1199, 1200, 1211, 1214, 1239) show the upagīti form of the arya.
Apart from the Māgadhi verses and the Apabhramsa verse (287) the following metres are also represented in the MPC in-verses apparently quoted from other sources :
Hariņi: 253. Śārdūlavikridita: 157, 1039, 1061, 1062, 1128. Śloka : 127, 200, 688, 971, 1119, 1120, 1121, 1123, 1124,
1125, 1206, 1207. Sragdharā: 78, 79, 227, 228. Vasantatilaka : 1122.
The Māgadhi verses (458, 460, 461, 463, 464, 466, 467, 469, 470, 472, 473, 772–775) and another verse (459), not apparently intended to be Māgadhī, are composed in a metre characterized for each pada by a closing gana of the forma
