Kuvalayamala Part 2

SR No.: 002778
Original Sutra Author: Udyotansuri
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 368
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 12 MB

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INTRODUCTION
sermons and at times by way of clarificatory elaboration. Uddyotanasūri mixes up various stylistic and metrical forms of composition; and he has made a pointed reference to this at the beginning of his work (§ 7). In fact some metrical forms are specified by him, though a few of his expressions are open to different interpretations.
The total number of verses in this work is not less than 4180, the major bulk of which is made up of Gathas, the predominant Prakrit metre. Uddyotanasūri has such a remarkable hold on the composition of Gatha that it comes to him most naturally. The liquidity and smoothness of his Gāthās stand unparalleled, if not unsurpassed. Besides the Gatha, the metrical forms used by him are listed below alphabetically; and a few observations are added on some of them in the Notes at the end.
adhikākṣarā: 25.30
anuşṭubh: 129.26, 29; 130.27, 131.11, 152.8, 214.20, 230.12, 237.1
avalambaka: 94.11 avaskandhaka: (32/29):9.9 carcari: 4.27 (dhuvayam)? caru: [10 (5, 5)], 10.7
chittaka see also toṭaka; 28.19f., 38.21 f., 144.7
dandaka: 18.11f. (see Notes); 28.11f. (bhujamga), 68.24, 174.7f. (pracita) dohaka: 47.6 (see Notes), 152.11
dvipathaka: 47.6 (see Notes), 59.5
dvipadi: 31.30f., 41.33-4, 78.13f., 84.12f., 84.22f., 95.15f., 116.17, 160.24 (called duvai-khamḍalayam)
galitaka (with four lines, each having 21 mātrās: 5, 5, 4, 4, 3): 4.28, 4.31, 5.3, 5.6
giti: 14.15, 33.17, 37.9-10, 42.1, 60.17, 61.28, 76.19f. (?), 94.23), 120.4, 134.26 gitikā (This differs from the gīti type. Its third and seventh caturmātrās
jambheṭṭikā [9(4, 5], 10.7f.
lalita: 33.17 (see Notes)
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have in fact five mātrās): 2.8 (see the Notes)
hariņikula (having thirty mātrās in a line: 47, 2): 8.29 (see the Notes), 235.16 indravajra: 43.18
mātrāsamaka: 18.19
nārāca: 154.12; see also pramāṇikā
pañcacāmara: 24.20
pañcapadi: 63.18, 20, 22, 25
pramāņikā: 154.12; see also nārāca
samkulaka (6, 4, 4, 2): 14.26, 18.2f., 18.19, 171.18f., 174.14.
sārdulavikrīḍita: 103.17
skandhaka: 152.9 (see Notes)
sragdhara: 19.13, 19.16, 19.19, 19.22, 19.25, 19.28, 20.5, 20.11, 20.14, 20.17, 20.20, 20.28, 40.9, 44.9.
sumanā (see Vṛttajatisamuccaya III, 1. It has four pādas, each having three caturmātrās and a guru, thus in all fourteen mātrās): 2.7 totaka, see chittaką