Garudapurana 1.208

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa: 208
Sūta said:
The characteristic of the āryā is eight feet, and ja-gaṇa is never in an uneven [foot];
in the sixth, ja-gaṇa or na-la occurs; a word occurs after the second short syllable in the sixth.

From the beginning, a short syllable is in the seventh; then in the second half, in the fifth.
A foot of three gaṇas is pathyā; it is vipulā when crossing over three.

With a ja-gaṇa in the second and fourth amidst heavy syllables, it is capalā; capalā begins from the first half;
with it in the second half, it is jaghanacapalā—such is the definition of the āryā class.

If the characteristic of the first half of the āryā is in both halves, it is a gīti;
from the second half, it is an upagīti; from inversion, it is an udgīti.

And āryāgīti has a heavy syllable at the end—such is the definition of the gīti class.
If there are six mātrās in the uneven and eight in the even, not uninterrupted,
an even foot does not depend on another; in the vaitālīya, ra and la are followed by a heavy syllable.

With ra and ya at the end, as before, this is considered aupacchandasika.

From bha and two heavy syllables, it is āpātalikā; then dakṣiṇāntikā should be known:
the second short syllable depends on another in all feet.

An udīcyavṛtti is in the uneven, but a prācyavṛtti is in the pair;
with the fifth in the fourth part, both occur together as the pravṛttaka.

By combination of feet beginning with udīcyā, having one foot as the even foot,
and cāruhāsinī in the uneven foot, this is the summary of vaitālīya.

A vaktra should not have na and sa from the beginning; the gaṇa should begin from the fourth.
It is pathyāvaktra with ja-gaṇa in the even; otherwise it is viparīta and the rest.

In the uneven, na-gaṇa is capalā; vipulā has a short syllable as the seventh,
or throughout according to Saitava; ma-ra and na-ta preceded by four.

With sixteen short syllables, acaladhṛti is called a mātrāsamaka.

Likewise the ninth is a short syllable and the last is a heavy syllable; ja-gaṇa or na-la after the fourth;
it is viśloka; from doubled four of that, it is vānavāsikā.

A short syllable at the fifth, eighth, and ninth is citrā of sixteen syllables;
that which has equal mātrās is taught as equal; padākulaka is spoken.

Metres measured by mātrās are without syllable [counts]; syllables as short without heavies;
heavies through short syllables in a half are always determined as the measure.

Twenty-eight short syllables ending in a heavy in the first half, and thirty in the second:
in this metre, it is a śikhā ending in a heavy; from the inversion of that, it is khañjā.

Sixteen heavy syllables make anaṅgakrīḍā, and thirty-two short syllables in the final;
twenty-seven short syllables ending in a heavy in both halves is rucirā.

The mātrā-metres have been spoken; I shall now declare the syllable-metres.

Thus ends the two hundred and eighth chapter, named 'Exposition of the Characteristics of Metres Beginning with Āryā' in the treatise on metres in the section on conduct of the first part of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.