Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

Author(s): Punyavijay, Rupendrakumar Pagariya, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad

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MAHĀNISĪHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
preceding nasal" in MIA (H. Jacobi, KZ.24,p.613) there would still remain enough cases to prove that the author was either simply careless or even incompetent to compose normally structured Slokas. It seems, he has selected and overburdened the motto: na vā ekenâkşarena cchamdāmsi viyanti, na dvābhyām (Aitareya Brāhmaņa, I.6.1). The same conclusion can be drawn from the statistics about the opening and cadence of the pādas. 15.2.2 Deleu: "Not only is it possible, as Hamm (see 5.2.1) explains, to correct many of the pādas with 9 (and even more) syllables, the author also shows some regularity in his departure from the metrical tradition. This obviously is the case with b and d pādas of 7 syllables, the metre of which as a rule is GGGGGLG (see MNSt.A p.34). Among the thirty odd instances, that are found in Chapters I-II there are only six rather unimportant exceptions to that rule, namely pādas 1.28b, 1656, II.118d, 1610, III.100, 45b. 15.2.3 It should be added that one cannot always know for sure whether the supernumerary syllables are not to be put down to some extrametrical addition".
15.3 Opening. 15.3.1 From among the schemes of opening a pāda which are prohibited, we find in Chap.VI: in a/c 6 cases,i.e. 2.8% “l. The opening thus shows relatively few deviations from the schemes allowed, because the number of permitted opening is considerably bigger than those for the cadence. If one may say so, even a less trained author has very few opportunities to miss the structure of the opening.
15.3.2 Deleu: "In Chap.I-II, 39 pādas a/c, i.e. 19.5%, and 33 pādas b/d, i.e. 16.5% show an irregular opening."42
15.4 Cadence. 15.4.1 Completely different is the picture that emerges out of the statistics of the cadence, for which only LGGL/G in a/c and LGLL/G in b/d are allowed.
* The pādas with 7 syllables in the whole of Chap.I-III are: 1.206, 286, 700, 866, 906, 1010, 1036, 138b, 142b =906, 1646, 165, 166, 1970, 214, 2150, 218d; II.166, 270, 50d, 536, 620, 95d, 103d, 112, 117, 118d, 1400, 1536, 1610, 1906; III.96, 10d, 396, 420, 44d=420, 450.
41 The details are: in a/c 6 cases, i.c. 2.8% (GLLG: 3, LLLG: 2, GLLL: 1), and in b/d 7 cases, i.e. 3.3% (GLLG: 3, LLLL: 2, LLLG: 1, GGLG: 1).
42 The details are: GLLG in 32 pädas (a: 16. b: 5.c: 5. d: 6), LLLG in 18 pādas (4.6.4.4), LLLL in 13 padas (3.5.3.2), GLLL in 7 pādas (2.2.2.1), GGLG in 2 pādas (6:1, d:1).