Swayambhuchand

SR No.: 023463
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H D Velankar
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishtan
Publication Year: 1962
Total Pages: 292
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 22 MB

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2.8-3.1]
स्वयंभूच्छन्दः
their debts by the pleasure of their masters?' They really live because they have done their duty as true warriors.
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'When Yavamati has its (even and odd) Pādas interchanged, it is called Saṭpadavali by the poets.' (ja-ra-ja-ra-ga; ra-ja-ra-ja); cf. H. 3.11; Pingala and others do not mention this metre.
12.1:
'You look charming with the lotuses of your feet, oh lovely girl, which have the filaments of ruby-like nails and pretty petals of well shaped fingers, as if you were a goddess on earth honoured by mortals.'
'If it is a Giti in the first and the third Pāda and a Skandhaka in the second and the fourth, but when all the letters in each Pāda are short, except the last one (which is long), it is called Sikha; in the opposite case, it is called Khañjā.' Thus according to Svayambhu, both Sikha and Khañjā have four Pādas each, and are Ardhasama Catuspadis. In the former, the odd Pādas have 30 Mātrās and the even ones have 32; while in the latter the opposite is the case. Of the 30 and 32 Mātrās, the last 2 are always represented by a long letter. See P. 5.43-44 for the metres. Also cf. H. 3.28-29.
13.1-4:
The first is a description of the Autumn, the second and the third are of the advance rains, and the fourth of the fresh Spring, all in their relation to separated lovers.
III. VIȘAMAM
The proper title of this chapter should be Vişamam, though in the concluding stanza this is not mentioned. The word Präkṛtasärah there refers to all the three, or rather all the earlier chapters, (including those of the Pūrvabhāga), which treat of Prakrit, as against Apabhramśa, metres. Thus according to Svayambhu, not merely the Matrā Vṛttas like the Gāthā and the Skandhaka, or the mixed Mātrā and Varna Vrttas like the Vaitālīya and the Mātrāsamaka, but also all the Varna Vṛttas of the 26 classes together with the Dandakas, are Prakrit metres; he has accordingly defined them all in terms of the Mātrā Gaņas which he has explained at SbPb. 1.2. The Vişama Vṛttas are generally classified under four heads: 1. the Udgata group; 2. the Pracupita (or Upasthitapracupita) group; 3. the Vaktra group and 4. the Padacaturürdhva group. See Jayadaman, introduction, paras 12-15 (pp. 21-23).
1: 'Six Caturmatras, of which the first, the third and the fifth have their long letter at the end, the second and the sixth have it in the middle