Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 212

GaP 1 212.5

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- २१२ सूत उवाच । प्रस्तार आद्यगो ऽथो लः परतुल्यो ऽथ पूर्वगः । नष्टमध्ये समेंऽके लः समे ऽर्धे विषमे गुरुः ॥ गर्प्_१,२१२।१ ॥ प्रतिलोमगुणं लाद्यं द्विरुद्दिष्टक एकनुत् ॥ गर्प्_१,२१२।२ ॥ संख्या द्विरर्धे रूपे तु शून्यं शून्ये द्विरीरितम् । तावदर्धे तद्गुणितं द्विर्द्व्यूनन्तु तदन्ततः ॥ गर्प्_१,२१२।३ ॥ परे पूर्णं परे पूर्णं मेरुः प्रस्तारतो भवेत् ॥ गर्प्_१,२१२।४ ॥ लगसंख्या वृत्तसंख्या चाद्याङ्गुलमथोर्ध्वतः । संख्यैव द्विगुणैकोनाच्छन्दः सारो ऽयमीरितः

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 212 sūta uvāca / prastāra ādyago 'tho laḥ paratulyo 'tha pūrvagaḥ / naṣṭamadhye sameṃ'ke laḥ same 'rdhe viṣame guruḥ // garp_1,212.1 // pratilomaguṇaṃ lādyaṃ dviruddiṣṭaka ekanut // garp_1,212.2 // saṃkhyā dvirardhe rūpe tu śūnyaṃ śūnye dvirīritam / tāvadardhe tadguṇitaṃ dvirdvyūnantu tadantataḥ // garp_1,212.3 // pare pūrṇaṃ pare pūrṇaṃ meruḥ prastārato bhavet // garp_1,212.4 // lagasaṃkhyā vṛttasaṃkhyā cādyāṅgulamathordhvataḥ / saṃkhyaiva dviguṇaikonācchandaḥ sāro 'yamīritaḥ

The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 212. The Sūta said: In the (metrical) display (prastāra), the first (syllable) is long; then a short (syllable is placed); then (the row) equal to the next, then (the syllables) as in the preceding. For (finding) a lost (verse-form), in the middle, at an even number the syllable is short; at an even half (it is short), at an odd (one) it is long. (1,212.1) In the reverse-order multiplication, the short comes first; in the 'uddiṣṭa' (procedure) it is doubled and one is subtracted. (1,212.2) The number is doubled at a half; but where there is a unit, (place) a zero; at a zero it is said to be doubled. So far as it is halved, it is multiplied by that; but when it comes to an end (from that point), it is doubled and two subtracted. (1,212.3) On the further (side) it is filled, and again on the further (side) filled: thus the Meru arises from the display. (1,212.4) The count of shorts and longs, and the count of metres, is the first cell; then upwards the count itself, doubled and diminished by one. This has been declared to be the essence of prosody.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain