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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PAUMACARTU
(7). Scheme. 11714 (theoretically 12+14). Occurence. 2. (55., 70.) Sandhis.
2 9b, d, 6 10b, d, 10 9b, d, 14 96, d end in a long and it is not possible to make them contain more than 14 moras. 13 9 b, d actually contain 13 moras. All the other Ghattās of the 2. Sandhi have actually 14 moras in their even Pädas. So on the assumption that all these Ghattās are composed in the same metre, the even Pada has got to be uniformly of 14 moras. If the short end syllable of the Pādas is counted long, the measure would be 12+14. This is the scheme of Avaduvahaa as described at SC. VI 115', Rāj. 128, Ch. VI 19, 45,
The odd Pädas (6.4+U) are identical in structure with the even Pāda of the Dohā. The four-moraic Gaņa is most frequently UU-, the last two moras having only once the form UU. Hence its characteristic end is -- U.
The 14 moras of the even Padas are divisible as 4 + 4 + 4 + 2. It is not possible to constitute the first Gana with 6 or 5 moras. The end is generally --UU, thrice U U U U. Jagana is found in the 2. four-moraic Gana only. The form UU is preferred by all the four-moraic Gaņas, it being most frequent in the 3. Gaņa. The form - UU is not found in the 2. and 3. Gaņas. This suggests a dactylic rhythm.
The odd Pādas of this metre are structurally different from the odd Pādas of the previous two Ghattā metres. It is quite possible to suggest that excepting the Ghattās of Kadavakas 2, 6, 10 and 14, the others have the scheme 12 + 15 and hence the metre is Premavilāsa (SC. 118; Rāj. 129; Ch. VI 19, 46). This Ghatta is used also in RC. 12, 22, 59, 102; MP. 86 has its Ghattās in a metre which has the scheme 11 + 14. But the scheme of the even Pādas there appears to be 6 + 4 + 4.
In PC. 2 13 9 bd the last words are read by all the Mss. as nähu and avarāhu. They are emended as ņāho and avarāho to make the requisite number of 14 moras.
(8). Scheme 11 (or 12) + 12.
Occurrence. 5. (23, 24, 62.) Sandhis. SC. VII defines in the beginning certain special Ap. metres, connected possibly in some way with the construction of the Ap. epic, which is described just next in the same chapter. SC. VIII 7 states that there are seven types of Chaddanias and three types of Ghattās" and SC. VIII 8-29 define and illustrate them. SC. VIII 26 describes Ghatta II as follows:
savvāņahon pi paāņam, ti-nava-kalão huvanti
ghattā-lakkhana erisa, govālä vilavanti! 'All the Pādas have three plus nine (i.e. twelve) moras; such definition of the Ghattā (of the second type.) is stated by Abhiras (lit. cowherds)'.
described me waginning ceris,
(1) SC. treats Duvaha and its varieties Avaduvahaya and Uvaduvahaya at two
different places (SC. IV 7-13; VI 113-117). First they are treated as independent metres. Afterwards they are described as varieties of Ghattās.
These are to be distinguished from each other. (2) Here the designations Chaddania and Ghattă are given to some definite me
tres. They are not here generic names synonymous with Dhruva, Dhruvaka and Ghatta. Further SC. VIII 35 mentions Ghatta and Chaddania among the metres used in the beginning of a Sandhi and the structures of these Ghatta and
Chaddania are different from the ones given in the beginning of Ch. VIII. (3) The text is corrupt. paana, kalau, lakkhanu and erisu can be suggested as
emendations.