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vitatham natthi Buddhanam gananaya na vattabbo
Since we are more concerned with the relative placements of the particles and the parts of speech as also the metrical patterns of the anustubh feet than their sheer frequency of use, we propose to keep out the repetitions from the present study and take up only one case each of the abovementioned feet. As such, only 5.28b, 2.120a, 2.109c and 7.3c have come within our pesent purview.
The following table gives us an idea of the frequency of occurrence of the particles as particular syllables in anustubh feet.
syllables
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first
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
total
Table 2
frequency
na
21
6
7
1
2.109c 110-14e
7.3c 8.4c 21.3c 27.3-4c
35
mä
3
1
5
total
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24
7
7
1
1
Particles as first syllables
As first syllables, na appears 21 times and ma thrice, and the two together 8 times in odd feet and 16 times in even ones. The former occurs as a short syllable in every foot except in napi chiddam maha ahu (14.296) and natthi tãdisikā pabhā (15.24b) where the syllable is long. Na is followed immediately by a noun in 6 feet, by a pronoun in 4, in 5 feet by some verb, and by an indeclinable in 6. Mã is immediately followed by a pronoun in one foot, and in two a verb comes after it. The table below furnishes the details of the sequence of use of the particles and the parts of speech in these 24 feet.
संकाय पत्रिका - १
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