Prakrit Paingalam

SR No.: 020566
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chandramohan Ghosh
Publisher: Calcutta
Publication Year: 1902
Total Pages: 727
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 12 MB

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In some instances, the compiler has consciously adopted two different definitions of the same metre, and placed them one after the other; as Saddúla-saṭṭa () in sloka 186, p. 525; and Saddúla-bikkíḍiam (f) in sloka 188, p. 529. In others, different descriptions with different names of one and the same metre have been unconsciously adopted, as if of different metres, and placed, not consecutively one after the other, but in different places; as Bandhu (a) in sloka 100, p. 411, and Dodhaka () in sloka 104, p. 415. On the other hand, several different metres bear one and the same name :-as
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Had the author been a single individual, he would not have likely given an identical name to different metres, or two different names to the same metre.
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(pp. 571 and 315). (pp. 583 and 311).
There are germs of two metrical laws in this work, not formally enunciated and defined, but casually brought forward to explain the structure of particular metres. These two laws have been a little more elaborated, and christened as (I) Combination(n:), and (II) Equivalent Substitution (:), by the present Editor in his Chhandah-sára-sangrahah (p. 114 et sequentia, and Introduction pp. xv-xvi, paras. 36-38). The first of these laws may be guessed at from slokas 146 and 204 in pp. 468 and 564 line 1; the second from slokas 76, 80, 81, 88, 112, 121 and 187 to 192, in pp. 135 line 2, 140 line 5, 141 line 2, 150 line 2, 192 line 1, 210 line 3 and 533 to 534, respectively.
Lastly, I avail myself of this opportunity to express my gratitude to the Principals of the Sanskrit Colleges of Calcutta and Benares, the Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and Pandit Bhagavati Charana Smrititirtha for manuscripts lent to me, and to Pandit Harischandra Kaviratna, late Professor of Sanskrit, Presidency College, Calcutta, for his hearty co-operation and literary help, during the progress of the book through the Press.
THE EDITOR.