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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PAUMACARIU
and the Ghattás of the same Sandhi are composed in the same 7 + 7 + 13. Now normally the commencing stanza of a Sandhi metre and if we examine these in the case of the 3. Sandhi, we find the same thing. Still according to SC. we have to understand that the metre of the opening stanza of the 3. Sandhi is Chandania V, while the metre of the Ghattā of the 3. Kadavaka (and hence possibly of all the Ghattās) of the same Sandhi is the fourth variety of the Sagpada-jāti. The reason for such difference in nomenclatures is not clear.
Actually the 1., 2., 4. and 5. Pādas in the Ghattās of the 3. Sandhi contain 6 moras. But from the treatment of the Ap. prosody by Svayambhū and others, we gather that in the case of the Dvipadis, Catușpadis and Şațpadīs, the shortest Pāda cannot contain less than 7 moras. Hence we have to take the short end syllables of all the Padas of the Ghattās in the 3. Sandhi as long.
All the Pādas actually end in v U. The form u- U is not found for the first four moras of the six-moraic Pādas. The 3. and the 6. Padas have the scheme 6 + 4 + ul. Jagana is not used in the four-moraic Gaņa. The 1. Gana does not show preference for any particular form.
This Satpadi occurs also in the Ghattās of MP. 5., 32., Jas. 2. (16). Scheme. 8 + 8 + 14 (theoretically 9 + 9 + 15).
Occurrence. 14. Sandhi.
SC. V 9 cites in a somewhat corrupt form the Ghattā of the 7, Kadavaka of this Sandhi as an illustration of the sixth variety of the Şaţpada Avajāti, having the scheme 9 + 9 + 15. The Avajātis are required by definition' to contain nine moras in their 1.. 2., 4. and 5. Pādas. Hence in the present Ghattās the short end syllables are to be regarded as long. But in the case of 14 2 c, d, e, f this arrangement does not work, since all these Pādas end in a long and have 14, 8, 8 and 14 moras respectively. Here we have to suppose that either their final long -7's have resulted from original -iya's through modernization of the text or that in this one Ghattā an allied metre-5th variety of Şațpada Avajāti is employed.
The 8-moraic Padas are divisible as 4 + 4 except in 6 95 which has the form -- U - UUU. Jagana is not used in these fourmoraic Ganas. The form of the second Gana is --(or UUUU, The 14moraid Pädas have the scheme 4 + 4 + 4 + UU. Only the 2. Gana can be Jagaņa. The 3. Gaņa prefers the form uu -
Irregularities. 79 d one mora too many. Emendation. SC. V 9 reads vegge for veggeņa (P.S.) or vegeņa (A) If vegge is adopted the metre is rectified. (17)., (18). Scheme.
8 + 6 + 12 (theoretically 9 + 7 + 13)
8 + 8 + 12 (theoretically 9 + 9 + 13) (for Kadavakas 2, 3 and 4 only)
Occurrence. 15. Sandhi.
Svayambhū and Hemacandra while describing the Şatpadī Ghattā treat only their three types, viz. Jāti, Upajāti and Avajāti with the respective schemes 7 + 7 + 10 to 17, 8 + 8 10 to 17 and 9 + 9 + 10 to 17. But as Hemacandra makes it clear", many
(1) padhama-cautthae, pañcama-viae, jai nava mattau honti/
sese pāae, tarn-cia lakkhanar, Avajai tam bhananti// SC V 8. mattão and Avajaim of the printed text have been emended. evam ca saptādi-saptadaśānta-kalaughebhyah tribhih tribhih tulyaih tulyatulyaiḥ tulyaih vā ardhe padāh yatra bhavanti să vidagdha-gosthi-garisthă şaţpadi dhruvā/Ch. 38b/8-9.