Apbhramsa of Hemchandracharya

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Kantilal Baldevram Vyas, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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सि - अम् - प्रत्यययोः अस्य उत् In Apabhramsa the ending in Nom, and Acc. sing.
331.
(भवति ) । of nouns changes to
(1) दशमुखः भुवनभयंकरः तोषितशंकरः निर्गतः रथवरे (or रथोपरि )
आरूढः (चटितः ) । चतुर्मुखं ( = ब्रह्माणं ) षण्मुखं ( = कार्तिकेयं ) ध्यात्वा एकस्मिन् ( रावणे) लगित्वा इव दैवेन घटितः ॥
"The ten-faced demon (Ravana), terrifying the worlds, having propitiated Sankara, went out riding in his excellent chariot. He was created by the Creator having thought of four-faced god (= Brahma) and sixfaced god (Karttikeya, (and then) bringing them together into one".
Here दहमुहु, भयंकरु, संकरु, निग्गउ are instances of words in Nom. sing. with -ending; and, are instances of words in Acc. sing. with 3-ending.
The metre is a q; composition two caranas of 12+8+12 mātrās each. 1st and 2nd, 4th and 5th, and 3rd and 6th caranas rhyme. It is a variety of the metre, so usual in Apabhramsa epic poems. cf. Hemacandra's Chandonusasana, ed. H. D. Velankar, p. 354.
332. सि-प्रत्यये पुंसि ( = पुंलिङ्गे) ओतू ( = ओ ) वा ( = विकल्पे ) भवति ) ।
In Apabhramsa the ending of Masculine nouns optionally changes to a in Nom. sing. This is a partial exception to the foregoing sutra (331).
(1) अगलित स्नेहनिवृत्तानां ( एकः ) योजनलक्षमपि यातु । वर्षशतेनापि यः मिलति सखि सौख्यानां सः स्थानम् ॥
"(Of the lovers) (who are) separated, whose love (remains) unabated, one may go a lac of yojanas away, and may meet (the other, only) after a hundred years; still, O friend, he does become a source (lit. 'a storehouse') of bliss (to the other)".