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citations given in the Svayambhūcchandas are from Svayambhu's own poems : (3) The whole of the fourth Kadavaka of the 55th Sandhi of the Riţthanemicariya is composed in the Utthakka metre. It must have been one of the favourite metres with the Apabhramsa poets, as both Svayambhū and Hemacandra have treated it, but so far we have no knowledge about its occurrence in any other Apabhramsa poem. It is in the tradition of the Apabhramśa metres like Adilla and Madilla and the Prakrit metres of the Galitaka class which characteristically employed the Yamaka.
REFERENCES :
Chandonusāsana of Hemacandra, Ed. H. D. Velankar, Bombay 1961.
Jānāšrayi (Prakrit section) = Appendix to Chandonuśāsana (ed. Velankar, pp. 240.2-240.16). (The Jānāśrayi is an old work on Sanskrit metres composed by some Pandit at the Court of King Janāśraya, who is generally identified with Madhavavarman I of the Visnukundin dynasty who ruled over the district of Krishna and Godavari towards the end of the sixth century A. D. - Velankar). Thānāngasuttaṁ and Samavāyaṇgasuttaṁ, Ed. Muni Jambuvijaya, Bombay 1985. Svayambhūcchandas of Svayambhū : Ed. H. D. Velankar, Jodhpur 1962. The Vasudevahindi, L. D. Series 59, Jagadishcandra Jain, Ahmedabad 1977. Vrttajatisamuccaya of Virahāńka : Ed. H. D. Velankar, Jodhpur 1962. DN. Deśināmamālā of Hemacandra. DSS. Deśīšabda Kośa.
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