Chandonushasan

SR No.: 090113
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: H D Velankar
Publisher: Singhi Jain Shastra Shiksha Pith Mumbai
Publication Year: 1961
Total Pages: 444
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 9 MB

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INTRODUCTION
four different varieties of which were mentioned by Virahanka at Vrttajatisamuccaya IV. 100-101. All the rest are either Dvipadis or Sama Catuşpadis. As a matter of fact, out of the 11 Ardhasama Catuşpadis defined by Virahänka only three are mentioned by Svayambhu and all the three, namely, Vaitaliya, Aupaechandasaka and Apätaliki, are counted among the Sanskrit Mäträ Vṛttas by Hemacandra at Chandonusasana III. 53-55. Perhaps we may be permitted to conclude from this that the Prakrit poets were gradually losing interest in the Ardhasamās, while the Apabhramsa poets were adopting them increasingly. Svayambhu and Hemacandra who follows him, define 110 Ardhasama Catuşpadis, the shortest and the longest Padas of which contain respectively 7 and 17 Mātrās in them. All these belong to the Apabhramśa prosody according to both and granting that many of these owe their existence to the fondness of these authors for classification and systematisation, we must still presume that a large number must have been actually in use in the compositions of the Apabhramsa pocts.
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33. In the Vth Adhyaya Hemacandra starts the treatment of the Apabhramsa metres; as remarked above here he gives about 12 Rāsakas, one Ardhasama Rasa, the Matrā with its varieties and the strophic Radda, a few Sarvasama Catuspadis like the Vadana and the Vastuvadana, the six kinds of the Dhavalas and the common terms like Dhavala, Mañgala, Phulladaka and Jhambaṭaka applied to different metres under different circumstances. The VIth Adhyaya is assigned by him to the Satpadi and the Catuspadis; among the former no specific metres are mentioned, only the three broad classes, namely Satpadajati, Upajati and Avajäti being defined as respectively containing 7, 8 and 9 Mātrās in their 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Pādas and from 10 to 17 in the 3rd and the 6th. At the beginning of this Adhyaya the terms Dhruva and Chaddanika are explained as being applied to any kind of metre, whether a Dvipadi, or a Catuṣpadi or a Satpadi, when it stands at the beginning of a Sandhi or at the end of a Kadavaka, the name Chaddanikā however, being restricted to the Catuspadi and the Satpadi only, when they are employed to conclude a topic at the end of a Kadavaka in which it was started. The Satpadis are followed by the 110 Ardhasama Catuspadis and 9 Sarvasama Catuşpadis, the shortest among these latter having 9 and the longest having -17 Mäträs in each Päda. The Paddhadiki, which Svayambhu