Chakkammuvaeso

Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Oriental Institute

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C. Potential participles.
These are usually the variations of sk. -734- ending forms: faget 1.13.6.; Halloq3 3.17.6. ; 3.22.13. ; 3493 3.18.5. ; gali 7.8.7. ; but 4 3273 < sk. 9311876 -4 termination treated as 30351; 293 > sk. 4 + 4.10.7. These participles are passively used to express potential sense. D. Absolutives :
(i) f or fa: Rafa 1.4.3. ; gefa 1.7.10; fonta 1.10.2. ; &fafa 1.10.10. etc.
(ii) claus or say: wray 2.4.13; Mafag 2.6.10.; cofag 3.1.11. etc. (iii) fequor - fequ: ografery 2.1.1. ; quafcqu 1.1.3. (iv) pk. borrowings : 13 2.4.1. ; 34291234 3.3.2.
efeq- termination forms are not found and -31fa termination forms are only the variations of इवि forms : णियवि 2.4.14. by the side of णिएवि. E. Infinitives :
(i) -315 or -37g or -SET : fo14g 2.5.14. ; TUTE 3.5.14. ; 1195 4.7.7. ; 472 4.11.10. Et 4.23.7. ; Stakl 15.8.10.; TEE 6.4.10.; THET 8.12.7.; foreg 6.8.7.
(ii) -PE: THUE 3.20.2. (iii) -37: qfSatu 6.14.6.; 44 7.5.15. (iv) -37018 : 6.5.11. ; HTO 6.10.10.; oftatur 8.4.10.
(v) Sporadic : vfà : la 8.10.12. (ela afe 143 = came there to speak absolutive used as infinitive.)
(vi) pk. borrowings : #13 4.17.12. ; als 4.19.12.
The sense of the infinitive of purpose is also conveyed by using loc. sg. of the gerund : gak gai3 8.5.13. cf. G. 499 4.
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Metres and Form
The Apabhramśa epic is constituted of several sandhis as the Sanskrit FTFlay is constituted of several sargas. The sk. epic is git; in the same way Ap. epic is Sandhi-bandha. Each Sandhi contains several kadavakas or sections. Each kadavaka contains four stanzas or quartets. This rule is observed by earlier poets like Fiu but afterwards the lines in the kadavakas were not limited to eight. They were sometimes more. In our poem, a kadavaka contains sometimes fourteen and more lines. Even in Puşpadanta's Mahāpurāņa we find a kadavaka not observing the rule of eight lines or couplets. These couplets were of पद्धडिआ and other metres like वदनक, पादाकुलक, and at times पारणक. The first three are the metres of 16 moras and the last one of 15 moras. The Sandhi begins