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छन्दोऽनुशासनम् । article, I have generally followed the Trivandrum edition of the work; but now and then I have adopted the readings mentioned in the footnotes of that edition and given from the three manuscripts on which the edition is based, designated as ka, kha and ga. Where no help could be obtained either from the readings adopted in the edition or from those noted in the foot-notes, I have suggested emendations, showing the readings of the edition (ed.) or of the manuscripts, as the case may be, in the foot-notes. Words or letters newly added by me to.complete the sense are shown in the rectangular brackets.
3. Jānāśrayi has made use of eighteen different Mātrā or Varpa Gañas for its definitions of metres, employing a double set of symbols to convey them. I have discussed these along with those employed by another work on Sanskrit metres, namely, the Ratnamañjūşa, in the introduction, paras 3–5. Here in the following portion, only the following are used :
आ-आकार (सातवत्) = SII; इ - इकार (विभातिक्) = ISI; ई - ईकार (धीवराश) = SIS; क् - ककार (विभातिक्) = ISI; द् - दकार (नचरतिद्) = IIII; ब् – बकार (तेश्री:क्वब्) = SSI; भ्-भकार = S; य् – यकार (कमलिनीय) = IIIS; स् - सकार (गङ्गास्) = SS; हू- हकार = I.
(1 signifies a short letter or one Mātrā; s signifies a long letter
or two Mātrās.) 4. At the end of the text I am reproducing also the translation of it from the abovementioned article in the Sārdhasatābdi Volume owing to the somewhat obscure nature of terms employed here. I am thankful to the authorities of the Society for giving me permission to reproduce the portions of that article here.
जानाश्रयी-छन्दोविचिगत-पञ्चमाध्यायसूत्राणि ३९-७५
वामनिकाये षष्ठो हः॥ ५.३९ ॥ आर्याया आयेऽप्यर्धे षष्ठो गणो लघुरेव केवलो भवति चेत्, वामनिका नाम भवति ।
यथा
प्रवितततारककुमुदे गतमेघे शरदि सौम्ये च । चन्द्रो विभाति संप्रति हंस इव नभःसरस्येषः ॥ ५.३९.१ ॥
गीतिरन्त्ये दि वा ॥ ५.४०॥ . आर्याया अन्त्येऽप्यर्षे षष्ठो गणो दकार इकारो वा भवति चेत्, गीति म भवति ।
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