Safeguard Recitals (a book of protection chants)

Appendixes - 211
“Kodhano upanāhī ca, pāpamakkhī ca yo naro,
“That man who is angry, who has enmity, is bad, and insolent,
vipannadiṭṭhi māyāvī, taṁ jaññā vasalo iti.
who has wrong views, and is deceitful, he one should know as an outcaste.
5: Tuṭṭhubha/Jagatī
In Catubhāṇavārapāḷi there are some 40 verses in the Tuṭṭhubha/Jagatī metre, Ratanasuttaṁ
and Isigilisuttaṁ accounting for nearly 75% of this number. The Tuṭṭhubha normally has 11
syllables to the line (occasionally 12, when there is resolution), and its structure is defined as
follows:
(x 4)
In a Tuṭṭhubha verse a line in Jagatī metre is always acceptable. This metre is much the same
as Tuṭṭhubha, but with an extra short syllable in penultimate position, giving it a line length
of 12 syllables (13 with resolution):
(x 4)
The layout of the Tuṭṭhubha and Jagatī metres can be illustrated by the following verse from
Ratanasuttaṁ
Yathindakhīlo paṭhaviṁ sito siyā catubbhi vātehi asampakampiyo,
Just as a locking post stuck fast in the earth does not waver on account of the four winds,
tathūpamaṁ sappurisaṁ vadāmi, yo ariya-saccāni avecca passati -
in the same way, I say, is the true person, the one who sees the noble truths completely -
idam-pi Sanghe ratanaṁ paṇītaṁ: etena saccena suvatthi hotu! [8]
this excellent treasure is in the Saṅgha: by virtue of this truth may there be safety!
6: Old Gīti
Karaṇīyamettasuttaṁ is written in one of the musical metres. The basic organisational
principle of the two metres we have considered so far has been the number of syllables there
are in the line, normally Siloka has 8, Tuṭṭhubha 11. However, if we count a short syllable as
one measure, and a long syllable as two, it is possible to count the total number of measures
(mattā) there are in a line, and use this as the determining factor for line length.
This is exactly the principle involved in the first of the new metres to evolve, the so called
Mattāchandas, or measure metres. For instance in the metre called Vetālīya, the first line has
14 measures, and the second 16, the syllable count being variable. Once a mattā count was
established it was not long before a second structural principle was introduced, which was to
organise the lines into gaṇas, or sections. A gaṇa consists of 4 measures, which may
therefore take any one of the following forms:
−− or −⏑⏑ or ⏑⏑− or ⏑⏑− or ⏑⏑⏑⏑