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

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define it) also suggests diversity of traditions on this point.
___As the difference between the two metres अडिल्ला and मडिल्ला amounts to a negligible point, the view adopted in the Ch. which considers both these as merely two varieties of one single metre appears quite reasonable.
3. TT (740) or 311510 ( 3119101C). Occurrence : 26-30, 41-57, 58 (a b), 64-68, 74 (a b), 91-92, 96-99, 101-103, 104 (a b), 105-106, 109-110, 113 (6 lines), 117 (6 lines), 118 (6 lines), 121-124, 125 (a b), 130-136, 139-147, 151, 154, 155 (a b), 184-189, 190 (a b), 192-197, 198 (a b); 86-87; 204. Total 328+12 lines.
This is the principal' metre employed in building up the frame of the SR. About one third of the SR. is composed in this metre.
As it was in the case of the 34SM, here too we have to make a way through the conflicting and scanty accounts of the prosodists. CK. 17 defines 3T6M13 as a metre of 21 morae. The final mora should be always short and a 5-moraic Tot is to be avoided. The commentary on CK. 17 (See Notes on CK. 17) says that the tradition requires final three morae to be all short and this is comfirmed by the SR. stanzas. Thus the CK. makes no provision for the constitution of the individual us, nor says anything regarding the caesura. Still the definition stanza has a definite caesura after the 12. mora. Further, this CK. 17 is quoted in the area on SR. 26 with the varying fourth line recording रासउ as an alternative name of the आभाणक. The व्याख्या in its explanation of the definition adds on its own account that 6+4+4+4+3 is the Top -scheme. This is borne out by our stanzas but with certain important reservations, as the analysis given below shows. If we refer to the group of स्वयंभू, हेमचंद्र and the कविदर्पण for some guidance or clarification on this point there also we are faced with disappointment. Sc. VIII 50 defines one metre which is preferentially employed in the Ta compositions. It should have 21 morae, with final three morae short and a caesura after the 14 mora. On the other