Namo vṛttavidvadbhyaḥ:

Balabhadra's Hāyanaratna contains the following quotation from an astrological work no longer extant:

saṃtāpa-sahamam aharniśam indor mandāntaṃ ṣaṣṭhataḥ pātaḥ |

'The sahama of affliction by day and night is [the distance] from the moon up to Saturn; the casting out is [done] from the sixth.'

Ignoring the technical content for the present, I am puzzled by the metre. All other quotations from the same work are in āryā, and the present half-stanza looks like it too, except for the initial word (saṃtāpa-). Is there a variant of āryā that would allow for these extra 5 morae? All the mss of the Hāyanaratna available to me agree on the reading.

Martin Gansten