Samdesarasaka of Abdala Rahamana

SR No.: 001433
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Abdul Rahman
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 124
Language: English, Gujarati, Prakrit, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Literature
File Size: 6 MB

Page 38

. 31 employed, the stanza is called 371CA. VJS. IV 34 gives an illustration of 'अडिल्ला नक्कुडय-भेएण' i. e. an अडिला in the form of a नर्कुटक stanza in 37'irt with the 4140 employed in it. But just below the above-cited definition of the 3T15H, another one is given at VJS. IV 33. Unfortunetely the text of this definition stanza is not quite clear, but the form of the stanza is 6 + v-u+-+v“, with one 44 for all the four lines. These facts make it probable that fomerly 341CAT was a technical device rather than the name of any specific metre and accordingly any common metre could be turned into 3115M by composing it in 37999 and using the 4406. But the metre with the form 6+4+4+uw was employed with special preference for this purpose and the result was, 3715H ceased to be a general name and came to be specially attached to that particular metre. And later on, the distinction between the 440 ('a recurring group of syllables identical in sounds but different in sense') and the 3709014 (rhyme') being lost (cf. the uses of the term 146 in the sense of 375919 in the CK. and even in the Sc.; see also the illustration stanza for 37154 at Pp. 128), a 16-moraic metre of the above type, even without the 74t came to be called 34TSA. Finally it also took up the rhyme a b, c d.
Among the stanzas of the SR. in question, the 440 strictly so called is found in st. 157 (a b having one, c d another), 161 (only cd), 163 (only a b), 165 (only c d), 166 (a b having a pure one, c d an impure one) and 181 (a b and c d both having an impure one).
An analysis of the 22+3 3715H stanzas occurring in the SR. gives the the following statistics for the various forms of the constituent tots (the figures for the two of a 341SAls at st. 104 and 182 and one HISH at st. 111 are given separately in the brackets):
The forms of the 1. To of 6 morae are vvvv – 20 (6) ww-v-8 www- 3 --- 20
--- 4 ----2 ---- 19 (4) --- 3 (1)
ww--2 (1)