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some popular Desi melody, many a time some clasical Räga is also mentioned, the characteristics notes of which marked the mode of singing that particular 50 or 6. In LC. four Vs. are mentioned according to which certain verscs are to be sung. LC, follows in its choice of metres the Bardic tradition as against the Classical Apabhramsa tradition (See SR. Indtroduction, p. 48-49). In the Apabhramsa Rāsakas the standard metre was TAIAT45/17674. Instead in LC., as mentioned above, दूहा, पद्धडी and गाथा are preferred. For variation metres also we can see the influence of the Bardic tradition, represented by the Mini-US). As the text of LC, is based on the only one available manuscript, we have a number of lines which are metrically irregular.
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Description of the metres, Rhyming Prose-Types etc.
1. They occur in the following order.
I Adhikāra (vv. I to xx) 1-5 Gathã
Dūhā 7 Gātha
Şatpada 9 Sātāka (=
Sārdūlavikridita) 10 Gātha 11 Dūhā 12-13 Gāthá 14-16 Duha 17 Gäthä 18-21 Bhujamgaprayāta 22 Concluding Satpada 23-26 Gátha 27 Şalpada 28-31 Gathā 32-39 Paddhadi 40 Duha
41-42 Dohā + Kundaliya 43-44 Gāthā 45-56 Cäli 57 Rasāulau 58-59 Gāthā 60-62 Dūhā 63 Gāthā 64 Kundaliya 65-69 Gātha 70-71 Duhā
Vastu 73 Adilla 74 Hätaka 75-76, 77-78, 79-80 Savaiyā,
(Divaddha) 81 Concluding Şatpada 82-91 Gäthä 92 Duha
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