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(ab), 209-212, 214-219, 220 (ab). Total 94 Tas.
Being the standard metre of the Ap. epic, it is one of the commonest of Ap. metres and as such it is treated by almost all metricians with varying details.
A पद्धडिया-line is made up of four चतुर्मात्र गणS;....is obligatory in the last TOT, facultative in the 2., forbidden in the 1. and the 3. Regarding this metre Alsdort observes (Kp. 73): "The Paddhadikā is a metre of anapaestic (i. e. v*-) basic character, which though variously violated, is still to be clearly recognised. The freedom of construction is greatest in the opening portion of the 976; toward the end the regulation becomes stricter and the basic type of the respective Tus stands out more clearly. The 3. Tot is built up similarly to the 1, and the 4. similarly to the 2., and between 1./3. Tus on one hand and 2.14. Tots on the other exists a certain contrast, so that a regular variation is set up in the stanza which is indeed often given up-especially in favour of a continued anapaest rhythm”.
Gaņa 4. is most strictly regulated. In the SR, stanzas it has the form --- without exception. In other texts the form is also attested.
The forms of the 2. To are represented as under : (a) -- 39 (41 %) (b) - 25 (27 %)
juuu 16 (17 %) 53 (56 %)
41 (44 %) The corresponding percentage for the Tastsells occurring in the Kp. is 53 and 46. But Kp. has 1% of cases which are either dacty; (---) or spondee (- -). They are totally absent in our specimen.
In the case of the 1. and the 3. To here (as in the Kp.), 419 is the most frequent and 97747-which 'distrubs the anapaest rhythm most, the most seldom verse-foot as the following figures show.
ww www . - 1. 31 (33 %) 25 (28 %) 23 (24 %) 14 (15 %)
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