Chandralekha

SR No.: 001860
Original Sutra Author: Rudradas
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 174
Language: Prakrit, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Story
File Size: 13 MB

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is seen in Pischel's 2nd edition of Sākuntala brought out by Cappaller. Without important new ms. material, dialectal changes in Prākrit passages were effected in view of grammatical demands. With a zeal for thoroughness and uniformity Konow had to correct many forms, even against the readings of all mss., in order to make the prose thoroughly Sauraseni and verses thoroughly Māhārāștrī in the Karpūra-mañjarī. If the best mss. do not sanction a form, the editor, I think, has no right to restore it, simply because he holds a certain grammatical discipline as his standard. In his edition of Karpūra-mañjarī Konow has put all the verses in Māhārāştri and prose in Saurasenī, following the definitions of these dialects mainly as given by Pischel. But in this edition of Candralekhā, as explained above (p. 5 f.), I have been faithful to the ms. I believe, neither the standard of Hemacandra nor that of Pischel can be rigorously applied to the Candralekhā. It is true, in a general way, that the verses here show some tendency to use the verbal terminations -i, -u rather than -di, -du; but not that they do not at all use the latter in verses and the former in prose. Rudradāsa writes both his verses and prose in the same language; the terms Sauraseni and Māhārāştri as defined by Hemacandra, Mārkaņdeya or Pischel need not be applied to it; it should be called Prākrta as the author calls it; it is nearly the same as the one described in the grammar of Vararuci, current in the south; and it is much influenced by the expressions of the Karpūra-mañjarī.
viii) METRES IN THE CANDRALEKHA The Candralekhā contains (41+34+24+30=) 129 verses, in different metres, distributed over four Yavanikāntaras. They are arranged below according to Devanāgari alphabets, with necessary references to Yava. and verse-number. Aryā (2): II. 32, III. 22. Udgīti (1): II. 26. Upagīti (1): I. 11. Giti (27): 1. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33 and 37, II, 6, 11, 12,
17, 18, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 33, III, 1 and 7. Dodhaka (1): III. 21. Puşpitāgrā (3): I. 2, III. 2 and 13.
1 Kālidāsa's Sākuntala, Harvard Oriental Series, 16, Harvard University
Press 1922, Preface p. 15 f., and also p. 250 etc.