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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INTRODUCTION
are u.ou v. The form UU UU enjoys the preference (about 42 p.c.). - UV is the least preferred form. The commonest form of the 3. Gana is vo- (about 69 p.c.). Next comes -- (about 25 p.c.). UU UU occurs rarely. The 4. Gāna is usually vu, only about 18 p.c. cases are -
These results are in agreement with those obtained in the case of the Samdeśarāsaka stanzas, while they are at divergence with Alsdorf's findings concerning the Vadanaka stanzas in the Harivarsapurāna, wherein UU U-U is frequent in the 1. Gana. The Samkulaka described as a Samacatuşpadi (scheme 6 + 4 + 4 + 2) ät SC., VI 160; Rāj. 172; Ch. V. 28 Com. It seems to be the same as the Vadanaķa, except that it ends in , not in UU. The famous Hindi epic Ramacaritamanasa of Tulsidas is composed in this metre; the last two shorts of our metre appear there contracted as a rule into a long. It has come to be known as Copāī or Caupäż in the early vernacular literature.
(24). Pāra na ka.
Occurrence. 1. (1., 3. Kadavakas), 5. (6. Kadavaka), 6., 9.
(1., 11., 13.-14. Kadavakas), 12., 15., 19. Sandhis. It is employed in five whole out of twenty Sandhis, or in 77 out of 285 Kadavakas. It is a 15-moraic metre. Its structure is identical with that of the Paddhadikā except that the last Gana has the form uuu instead of U UVU. In other words omitting the first short and preferring for the middle of the last Gana of the Paddhaạikā gives the Paranaka. Everything else said in connection with the structure of the Paddhadikā applies in principle to the Pāranaka. The form -v in the last Gana is very rare.
The Paranaka is described among the Samacatuşpadi Dhruvās along with the Pādākulaka, Saṁkulaka and Paddhadikā by SC. VI 159 (Aranda is a blunder for Paranaka); Rāj. 170, Ch. VI 29. Though it is described here as a Catuspadi, like the Paddhadikä it is used as a Dvipadi in the Kadavaka. Svayambhu gives two Gaņa-schemes for the Pāranaka: 4 + 4 + 4 + 3 or 6 + 4 + 5. The latter is not applicable to our lines.
The use of a 15-moraic metre in constructing the Kadavakas may appear as going against the above-quoted general statement of Svayambhū (SC. VIII 30) that a 16-moraic metre is to be employed for building up the Kadavaka. But difference between the Paddhadia and the Paranaka is slight and the latter can be well looked upon as a modified form or variation of the former. It is characteristic of the Apabhrañša prosodists that such an important metre is not described independently. It is noticed along with a host of other metres among the Samacatuspadi Dhruvās.
2. The Variation Metres. For the sake of variation, a Kadavaka here and there is composed in a non-Paddhadika type of metre, or occasionally through
(1) savve pannāraha-mattaa, ta(i)ca-taara-samjuttaa'hava/
cha-ca-pa-ganehim sambaddhaā, [P]āranaassa ime pāaa// (2) In old Gujarati verse literature a 15-moraic metre is very popularly used for
building up the frame of the narrative. But it is devised from the Vadanaka by omitting its last mora, and hence is different from the Paranaka. It is known as copai and is described by the Chandahkosu (40; cf. also 20) under the name Laghucopai.