Paumchariu Part 1

SR No.: 002523
Original Sutra Author: Swayambhudev
Author: H C Bhayani
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 458
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 11 MB

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PAUMACARI
can protions from PC. Si consider first.ct all) of the cases the long
in it to decide in favour of any particular alternative. Of course Svayambhů and Hemacandra lay down the Gana-schemes for all the Pādas containing from seven to seventeen moras, but there are several and overlapping schemes for each Päda and in several cases there is disagreement between the two metricians. Hence this does not help us in making the choice out of the four possible alternatives as pointed out above.
A reference to the illustrations adduced by Hemcandra and Svayambhu for different kinds of Ghattās only helps to bring the complicated nature of our problem into relief. The text of the Svayambhūcchandas is considerably corrupt in its Ap. section. Hence it can prove of limited help only in so far as we are able to check the illustrations from PC. So some of the Ghattā illustrations from the Chando'nuśāsana we shall consider first.
In an overwhelming majority (but not all) of the cases the end syllable in the Ghattā illustrations of Ch. is to be regarded as long irrespective of its natural value, but in several cases (VI 19 4, 11 bd; 21a, 44; 20 78, 115; 23; 30; 14 1 cf.; 15 2, etc.) it is to be given its natural value, i.e. if it is short, it is to be counted one-moraic; if long, two-moraic. Further, in two Pādas of the same metrical value, the final short is to have its actual value at one place, is to be counted as long at another. Thus in the following illustration of the Campakakusumā (7+8)
anga-cangima, jai gorangihim/
campaya-kusuma, tä kaha agghahim// (Ch. VI 19 4) the end syllables of the 7-moraic Padas (i.e., a, c) are to be counted as short, but in the following illustration of the very next variety Sámudgaka (7-7-9)
jai bollai, ghana ukkanthia/
så muddau, muhu kalayanthia) (Ch. VI 19 5) the end syllables of the 7-moraic Pādas are to be regarded as long. Thus the Pādas which are theoretically equivalent turn out to be actually different. Similarly though the even Pädas of the abovequoted illustrations of the Campakakusumā and the Sämudgaka have to all appearance the same mora-contents, yet their end syllables are to be regarded as short in one case, long in the other. Thus the Padas that are actually equivalent turn out to be theoretically different.
Now let us glance at the Svayambhücchandas. Svayambhu's general practice also in SC. appears to be to consider the end syllable as long. But here too some Şatpadis (e.g. VIII 20-21, V 7) and Catuspadis (e.g. Kāmiņihāsaa VI 112 a c, Chabbhania VIII 15 etc.) are treated as ending in a short.
One illustration from the actual practice of another epic poet will be illuminating on this point. The commencing stanza of the 6. Sandhi of Puspadanta's Mahāpurāna is called Malayavilasiyā in in the text itself. Ch. VII 66 and Chandassekhara, 234 define a Dvipadi called Madanavilasitā, but its scheme is given as 5+3, which does not apply to the Malayavilasiyâs of MP. But SC. VII 10 describes a Dvipadi called Malaaviasiã which has the scheme 6+2, which is satisfied by the MP. stanzas in question. Now on examining these stanzas, we find that in three cases(MP. 61, 63, 6 7) all the four Padas end in UU. In the rest, the end is a long. In the sixmoraic Gaņa a heavy syllable is avoided in the place of eventodd
(1) SC. VI 28, 53, 76, 85, 110, 124, 134, 141 144, 146, 147;
Ch. VÌ 4-14,