Nag Kumar Charita

SR No.: 036460
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Pushpadant Mahakavi
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1972
Total Pages: 352
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 337 MB

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XLIV NAYAKUMARACARIU Sampada It has 23 matras in either line like that in Sandhi 3, but here the caesura comes at the 11th matra. It could not be traced in PP. but is illustrated in the Chandah-prabhakara page 60. Ghatta It has 31 matras in either line with the first two parts of 10 and 8 having a caesura and rhyming with each other. (PP. page 170 ). Culiala It has 29 matras in either line with a caesura at the 13th. (PP. page 274). Culiala (See above). 9. Prasasti III. Duvai verses. A Duvai verse occurs at the beginning of each Kadavaka in Sandhis 3 and 4. It has twenty-eight matras in either line with a caesura at the 16th and a long matra at the end. (PP. page 259). IV. Miscellaneous. At 6, 10, 1-2 we have a gatha having 30 matras in the first line and 27 in the second with a caesura at the 12th in either. (PP. page 108). At 6, 10, 3-4 we have a Sanskrit verse in Vamsastha rretre. Its last foot is, however, 'Upendravajra'. At the end in the Prasasti, we have six 'Gatha' verses as in 6, 10, 1-2, except that the second line of verses 2 and 5 has 30 matras instead of 27. 13. The gloss and its authorship. It has been mentioned in the description of the MSS. that three of them bear glosses ( tippana ) on the margin. These are more numerous and elucidative in D specially at the beginning of the work. It may appear that these notes were made by some readers or students of the MSS. according to the explanations of their teacher. But most of the notes are identical in all the three MSS. Sometimes they even agree in making a common mistake and in a few cases the same note has been shown to refer to different adjacent words. The only conclusion that can be drawn from these facts is that the makers of the MSS. copied the notes from a common source and that they are mainly the work of a single author. Who is this author ? A clue to his identification is furnished by a note in MS. D. on HATEAU, 3, 6, 4. There we are told- H ERA 9FT 3GT HETgarufconuen at The gloss-maker, in my opinion, means to say here that he had already explained the eighteen jatis of music in his glosses on the Mahapurana. Now, we have a gloss on the Mahapurana of Puspadanta which is found on the margin of some MSS. of the Mahapurana as well as on independent MSS. I have seen two MSS. containing the glosses on the Adipurana and the Uttarapurana respectively, from which I take the following extracts P.P.AC. Gunratnasuri M.S Jun Gun Aaradhak Trust