Chakkammuvaeso

Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Oriental Institute

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(1) The standard metre i.e. the metre normally used in the body of the kadavaka.
(2) The variation metres i.e. metres of varied types used to relieve the monotony of the normal or standard metre used in several kadavakas of the Sandhi.
The present work is constituted of 14 Sandhis containing in all 214 kadavakas. The normal metre is the 16-moras metre employed in 192 kadavakas.
The variation-metres are employed in 23 kadavakas. They are the different metres employed to relieve the monotony of 16-moras standard metre and at the same time to exhibit the poet's metrical skill just as is done by sk-poets in their epics, in which they always have a canto at least set apart for the employment of various metres. A. The Standard Metre :
The standard metre of 16 moras exhibits three types usually differentiated by their Gaņa-formation and the ending Gaņa.
The ending Gaņa-syllables: (1) 16 moras : four aarafs
ending in a जगण =~-~ (2) 16 moras : 6 + 4 + 4 + 2;
the last two has ending invu (3) 16 moras : 6 + 4 + 4 +2: but the last two hat are represented
long - ; rather the final agafats are -- (1) According to PP. 1.125. q&feat is constituted of 4 agafas of which the last agafa is a FOTO=U-u. But according to the earlier tradition Chn. 6. 31; Kd. 2. 22; Sc. 6. 129; 8.15. the year is constituted of four gafas without any restriction about the last agaf to be a 374. According to ga: 36 and PP. 1. 125. (of course a later tradition ) the last agafa is watu =v-u. This points out that a fear of earlier tradition was very broad almost to be a class. Sc. 8. 7. says : yafantsotanfall i.e. the qafea is of many types. If we work into the use by poets the qafe and 97 = vv last two hifts are found in one and the same 4394 or git = — the third type mentioned above, also so used. They did not entirely differentiate them but treated them as the varieties of the standard qafeant. qafest was the standard metre of the ap. epic. It had many varieties but it later became restricted to 4 + 4 + 4 +u-vie 4 Fiat of 477. and to treat it metrically, the gafa is treated according to PP. 1.125. definition.
In our work yafaat is used as under :
I. 4, 6, 7 (lines 10-13); III 1, 3, 12, 18; IV 5; V. 3; VIII 8; IX 7; XII 4, 13; XIII 6, 7; XIV 11 = 15 Kadavakas fully; partially in I. 7. line 10—13. The