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A Critical Review of the Old Arya Metre
8. changed grammatical forms, viz., plural into singular, instrumental into locative and so on.
9. done sandhi of an anusvāra with the vowel immediately following it.
The above types of emendations are made not always on the basis of the readings available in the editions referred to by him. He has applied his own imagination on several occasions.
I. Out of the nine pādas which are corrupt and deficient according to Alsodorf, 6 of them can be emended.
II. Over and above that remain still several pādas in the first section which are defective but are not pointed out or discussed by Alsdorf in the introduction or notes given by him. Most of them can be corrected on his own lines of emendation. I have, while suggesting emendations, arranged them in two categories and again under different heads pointing out the type of deficiency observed in them.
Group 1
This category is of the following nine verses : (A) 20 : 1st gana has 3 mātrās only.
3b : 5th gana has 5 mātrās. 3d : is corrupt after 5th gana. 4d : 5th gana is deficient. It has 3 mātrās only. 6d : 5th gana is deficient. It has 3 mātrās only. 7d: is corrupt after 5th gana. 13b : initial moras of even pāda are wanting. 260 : has 5 mātrās in the 2nd gana and an extra syllable in first
half. 31C - 2nd gana has 3 mātrās only.
Group 2
(B) Over and above that deficiencies remain in other stanzas too, but not pointed out by Dr. Alsdorf.
1. (a) lengthening of a vowel is required in 17a, 17c & 22d.
(b) shortening of a vowel is required in 5c-d, 250 & 26c-d.
(C) change in the order of words is required in 16c without disturbing the original meaning.
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