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
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C. The varieties of Tala (46-47). D. Some structural terms (48). E. The Rāsā-bandha (49-52). The concluding stanza (53).
Citations in SC.
As stated above, to illustrate the metres defined Svayambhū has given more than 213 citations-most of them consist of a single stanza-from the current Pkand Ap. poetry. Of these 132 are found in the preserved portion of the Pk. section, 81 in the Ap. section. Most of the citations are given under their author's name and in this manner fifty-eight writers are quoted: forty-eight for the Pk. section, seven for the Ap. section and three for both. Caturmukha, Dhūrta, Māüradeva, Dhanadeva, Āryadeva, Chailla, Govinda, Suddhasila, Jinadāsa and Vidagdha appear in the Ap. section.
But besides the illustrations cited along with their author's name, there are fifty citations, all in the Ap. section, which are given without any author's name prefaced to them. The problem of these anonymous citations has been solved by Modi' and Premi by identifying several of them from Svayambhū's PC. They have shown that.
SC. V 9 = PC. 14 7 9 VI 42 =
65 1 1 . VI 71 - 77 1 1 VI 74 =
77 13 13 VIII 27 =
5 1 1 A further examination of has enabled me to make the following identifications:
SC. V 5 = PC. 3 3 11 VIII =
24 2 1-2 6 =
33 3 9 =
3 1 1
31 1 25 =
, 41 i 1 From this it follows that whenever Svayambhū has selected the illustrations from his own works, he has given them anonymously. Hence it is reasonable to conclude that most of the nameless illustrative stanzas in SC. belong to Svayambhu-most of them, and not possibly all, because the text of SC. is based on a single defective Ms. that is unreliable in several matters. For instance the ascriptions of SC. I 6 to Vijjā and of SC. I 78 to Suddhakai are disputed by the marginal gloss to SC. which gives instead the names of Divāara and Niüņa respectively. Still more significant is the fact that at least in one case we are in a position to prove that the Ms. of SC. makes a wrong ascription. SC. VI 71 is reproduced from PC. (77 1 1). But that illustration is given in SC. under the name of Caümuha. Hence so long as we have not got a satisfactory text of SC. based on sufficient Ms. material we should be cautious in drawing conclusions from the available text of SC. Nevertheless, we are within reasonable limits when we say that most of the anonymous citations in SC. are taken from Svayambhu's own works. It is likely that some of them did not belong to any particular work, but were composed by Svayambhū just to illustrate his definitions.
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(1) Modi, 1940, 172. (2) Premi, 1942, 383. (3) Caümmuha is a recurrent misprint in the printed text of SC.