Sandesha Rasaka

SR No.: 002918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Abdul Rahman, Jinvijay, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 282
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 17 MB

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GRAMMAR
The 4. is invariably made up of two short morae. 1626 (~~~~~~~) is the only case of Gana-fusion. 2. मडिला .
§ 4.
Occurrence: 111.
Different views on the exact nature of this metre have been already noted in our discussion on the metre afeer. The wavering apparent in the Mss. of our text at 110 d (BC, A af) and in the commentaries (the text of both reads af, though the व्याख्या names the metre of Sr. 111 as मडिल्लच्छंदः and quotes CK. 41 cd to define it) also suggests diversity of traditions on this point.
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As the difference between the two metres afer and fear amounts to a negligible point, the view adopted in the Ch. which considers both these as merely two varieties of one single metre appears quite reasonable.
§ 5.
3. रासा ( रासक ) or आहाणय ( आभाणक ).
Occurrence: 26-30, 41-57, 58 (a b), 64-68, 74 (ab), 91-92, 96-99, 101-103, 104 (a b), 105-106, 109-110, 113 (6 lines), 117 (6 lines), 118 (6 lines), 121-124, 125 (ab), 130-136, 139-147, 151, 154, 155 (ab), 184-189, 190 (ab), 192-197, 198 (ab); 86-87; 204. Total 328+12 lines.
This is the principal' metre employed in building up the frame of the SR. About one third of the SR. is composed in this metre.
As it was in the case of the fear, here too we have to make a way through the conflicting and scanty accounts of the prosodists. CK. 17 defines as a metre of 21 morae. The final mora should be always short and a 5-moraic is to be avoided. The commentary on CK. 17 (See Notes on CK. 17) says that the tradition requires final three morae to be all short and this is comfirmed by the SR. stanzas. Thus the CK. makes no provision for the constitution of the individual us, nor says anything regarding the caesura. Still the definition stanza has a definite caesura after the 12. mora. Further, this
1 According to Kramadisvara as quoted and interpreted by JACOBI at Bh. p. 71* is the chief metre of the Nagara Apabhramsa.
2 The
metre used in the body of the heat Bh. VII 12 has the caesura after the 12. mora.
See Bh. p. 48, 7.