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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6.121-131 )
स्वयंभूच्छन्दः
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124.1: 'Sankha is seen at a distance; (but) Hanumān is not seen. It
is also seen how that matchless chariot-fighter is entering the battlearray.' This is evidently from a poem on the story of the Rāmāyaṇa.
125-129: These five stanzas define the five Sarvasamă Catuspadis which
respectively contain 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 Mātrās in each of their four Pādas. In v. 129 Svayambhū defines three different metres of 16 Mātrās in their Pādas : they are Pādākulaka, Samkulaka and Paddhatikā. In a Pädäkulaka the 16 Mātrās may be made up in any way; in Samkulaka we must have a Șanmätra, a Caturmätra and a Şanmātra, while in a Paddhatikā, we should have four Caturmatrās alone. For these three metres see R. 171-173 ; for others see R. 167-170. Also HPk. 6.26-30; Hemacandra mentions Pādākulaka under the Sanskrit Mātrā Vịttas at H. 3.70 and Samkulaka at HPk. 5.28 commentary, including it under Vadanaka. His words kecit here obviously refer to Rājasekhara and Svayambhū.
130: This stanza defines the Sarvasamă Catuspadi called Upavadanaka
whose Pädas contain 17 Mātrās each. This is also defined earlier at Sb. 4.12 above. At HPk. 6.31 Hemacandra defines a metre called Rogadā Dhruvaka which too has 17 Mātrās in its Pādas; but they are made up by a Şanmātra, two Caturmātras and a Trimātra; or by three Caturmātras and a Pañcamātra. This wholly agrees with R. 174. Svayambhū adopts the first of these alternatives for his Upavadana, but gives other two as a Caturmätra, a Trimātra, a Dvimātra, a Pañcamātra and a Trimātra, or Three Pañcamātras and a Dvimātra ; but he does not mention the name Ragadā Dhruvaka for the metre.
The Sarvasamā Catușpadis defined here in this chapter are of the Dhruvaka type, i.e., containing from 10 to 17 Mātrās in their Pādas; see above v. 60, and Introduction paras 15-16.
131 : So far Şatpadis and Catuspadis are treated ; now the Dvipadis shall
be defined hereafter. This stanza looks like an opening of a new chapter treating of the Dvipadis ; v. 173 too mentions only the Dvipadī and not also the Catuspadi. But a stanza marking the conclusion of a topic (and so a chapter) is not found before this one and therefore I have not started a new chapter here, though there are indications of this as shown above. It is quite possible that our ms. may have dropped it through oversight or through some other reasons, just as the palmleaf ms. drops it in ch. 8 of Sb. (See f.n. on p. 101).