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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4-ending syllable always long, we have here the measure of 14+12 instead of the usual 13+11. But the measures of the Giet and Bruchs when rendered in accordance with the ‘Bardic' tradition (which does not count the yr-ending syllable as necessarily long) would be 4+4+4+ ·+4+4+-- and 4+4+4+4+4+. This can mean that an gry line is just a GIET line with one mora less in the prior . Consequently an Brys is liable to be confused with a CIEL. Precisely this appears to have been the result in the case of SR. 108.
The constituted text of SR. 108 presents it as a regular CTE with 13+11 morae per line. Obviously, for the exact definition of this metre we shall have to wait for explicitly informative sources.
(c) Metres with the Rhyme-type ab, de, cf.
. 14. start. Occurrence : 22-23, 95.
The gift or SPHI is known to the metricians of the ‘Bardic' group only. It is treated as a guiça (CK, 16, Pp. II 208) as also as a मात्रावृत्त (Pp. I 196-198). As a वर्णवृत्त it is made up of 8 सगणs, with the first caesura after the 8. syllable and the second after the 16. This distribution of the caesurae has a rhythmic significance as it changes the anapaest rhythm of the middle portion to a dactylic one. This fact is indicated by the 10-scheme of the Sun of the HEÇa-type. It is 6+4/4+4/6+4+4. The difference between the Shell of the quiça type and that of the HEÇa type is that the two shorts and one long in the non-final Tuts of the former are replaceable in the latter respectively by one long aud two shorts. In other words all other forms of a CCHET are permissible except the 574. But, as the two specimens from the SR. show, in practice there is a strong tendency to preserve the rhythm of the quant-type i. e. the opening and the close anapaestic, the middle dactylic.
In the case of one of our GHS the fact that separate stanzaumbers (SR. 22,23) are given for each half raises one issue.