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CAÚDALER Pșthvi ( 10 ): I. 17, 21 and 30, II. 23, III. 17 and 18, IV. 7, 25, 26
and 30. Mandākrāntā (2): II. 8 and 13. Mālini (4): II. 5 and 9, III. 4 and 5. Rathoddhatā (2): I. 18, III, 23. Vasantatilaka (16): I. 5, 13, 16, 35, 36 and 40, II, 16, III, 3 and 6,
IV. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22. Sārdūlavikrīdita (26): 1. 1, 3, 6, 14, 20, 22, 23, 24, 28, 34 and 38, II,
1, 7, 10 and 21, III. 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 20, IV. 1, 2,
5 and 17. śikhariņī (3): I. 4 and 41, II. 15. Sragdharā (27): I. 15, 19, 27 and 39, II. 2, 3, 4, 14 and 34, III. 9, 10,
19 and 24, IV. 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 29. Hariņī (2): II. 19, 20.
It is in the fitness of things that our author has included many Gītis etc. which are the verieties of Aryā, the same as Gāthā, the preeminent Prākrit metre. One Gīti is short by two mātrās in the 3rd pāda (II. 12). There are some cases of the violation of yati, for instance, I. 19 ( 4th line), I. 38 ( 3rd line), II. 5 (4th line), II. 8 ( 4th line), III. 4 (1st line), III. 19 (2nd line), III. 20 (4th line), IV. 1 (1st line), IV. 9 (first three lines), 11 (4th line) and 13 (3rd line).
4. RUDRADĀSA: THE AUTHOR The information which the author of Candralekhā gives about himself in the Sthāpanā (1. 5. 4 etc.) of the play is quite meagre. His name is Rudradāsa; he belonged to the Pāraśava community (vamsa) the members of which took pride in their devotion to the feet of Brāhmaṇas, were far famed, and diverted themselves by literary compositions; and he was a disciple (sisya) of Rudra and Śrīkantha who were eminent in giving instructions.
We may try to shed some light on the above points from other sources. According to the Manusmrti (IX. 178), Pāraśava is an issue of a Brāhmaṇa from a Sūdra lady. Yājñavalkya says that she is a wife by marriage. Such a son, though living, is as good as dead, i. e. he does not possess all the rights and privileges of a son; and hence his name pūrasava (pārayann eva savaḥ). Kullūka allows srāddha etc. for him. The Pāraśavas have a pretty
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