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________________ 226 JAIN JOURNAL Akşaras Pingala Kedara Gangadasa Hemacandra 24 Inan Total 102 App 104 226 Hemacandra had evidently all the authoritative texts before him He gives alternative names of metres in many cases For instance, regarding metre samgatam he remarks 'padmamukhi-suratāvasthām-uddharanamsopānak am ceryanye' He has extensively referred to Bharata Thus on metre pritthur, he notes 'vilamvitagatiriti bharatah' He notes again that Bharata's name for what is now known as mandākrāntā metre was Sridhara 17 Hemacandra was a poet of great ability and he has illustrated every one of the metres with verses of his own, many of which are exquisite 5 A few of his verses, chosen at random, will be reproduced at the end of of the article The Chandanušāsana consists of eight chapters Briefly these deal with sutras Chapter I Definitions and abreviations Chapter 11 Jan, 1e , 'sama' metres 401 Chapter 111 Ardha-sama metres, visuina metres, vaitaliya and other matrā metres, mātrā-sama metres Chapter IV Gathā, ie, ārvā metres These are Prakrit metres Chapter V Apabhramsd metres Chapter VI Apłbhramsa metres continued-catuspadi and sat padi Chapter VII Apabhramsa metres continued- dvipad: Chapter VIII Prastāra 746 6 Hemacandra in chapters IV-VIII has dealt with about 340 metres This by far exceeds the number of metres treated in any other work on Prakrit (and Apabhramsa) metres There are 1006 verses almost all perhaps composed by Hemacandra himself of which 626 are in Sanskrit
SR No.520010
Book TitleJain Journal 1968 04
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorJain Bhawan Publication
PublisherJain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year1968
Total Pages175
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationMagazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size6 MB
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