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Table of Contents.
PAGE List of Authorities Corrections Preface by the General Editor किंचित् प्रासङ्गिक Introduction:
1-48 Preliminary (1); eight Akşara Gaņas of Pingala (2), eighteen of the Jānāśrayi (3-4); twelve of the Ratnamañjūşā (5); Akşara and Kāla Matrās and the origin of the Akşara Mātrā Gaņas for the scanning of Prākrit metres (6); the five Mātrā Gaņas consisting of 2 to 6 Mātrās (7); graphic representation of short and long letters in old works on Prosody (8); the meaning of the words Samāna and Pramāņa (9); the term Vitāna as the name of metres (10); Prākrit metres in Bharata's Nātyaśāstra (11); metrical music and its three kinds (12-13); Varņa Vịttas employed in Prākrit poems (14); Prākrit and Apabhramsa metres employed in the Vikramorvasiya (15-18); Prākrit metres in the Vrttajātisamuccaya and the Jānāśrayi (19-20); origin of the Gathā (21); Gīti and Gītikā, the latter being very popular for long (22); Galitaka, Khañjaka, Vadanaka and Adilā (23); Sirsakas (24) Dvipadīs of four lines and the strophic Dvipadis (25-26); strophic Rāsakas in Präkrit and Apabhramsa (27); Rāsābandha and Sandhibandha Kāvyas in Apabhraṁsa (28); Gāthālakṣaṇa and Svayabhūcchandas: Survey of contents (29-30); distinction between shorter and longer Dvipadīs and Catuşpadīs, the longer ones being employed as the Dhruvās and Svayambhū's special name Vastuka for the shorter Catuspadīs (31); Hemacandra's Chandonu. śāsana: Survey of contents (32–33); Kavidarpaņa: Survey of contents (34); Prākrita Paingala and Chandahkoća: Survey of contents (35-36); Resume
(37); Critical Apparatus of the present edition (38). Chandonušāsana of Hemacandra: Text
1-239 Parisista: Jānāśrayi on Prākrit metres Text of Ch. V. Sūtras 39–75
240.1-8 English Translation
240. 9-16
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