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LITERARY EVALUATION
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conduct or morality. There are only 12 verses in the main body, which have been composed in the Varna-chandas. They occur on the occasions of the eulogy of the Jina (28.48-50), the destruction of the the garden by Hanumat (53.79), the description of the soldiers of Indrajit fighting with Hanumat (53.107-113) and in the the work in beginning of the Prasasti (118.102) appended to
the end.
Thus we find that the whole work is well planned with Gāhā as the running metre and the metre of the ending verse of every chapter is changed generally into some Varna-chanda and rarely into some Mátra-chanda.
The following table gives an analysis of the Chandas employed in the PCV:
Sl. No.
Name of the Metre
A. Main Prakrit Metre :
1. Gatha (proper) 8499 verses in all
(Prasasti--118.
103-119).
3. Udgatha
4. Simhinī
5. Gǎhinī
6.
B. Derived varieties of Gatha:
2.
Gatha (Gahu)
Skandhaka
7. Gatha-Skandhaka
C.
8. Galitaka
Main body
1. Pramāņikā
2. Dodhaka
3. Indravajra
4. Upendravajrā
106.1; 53.115;
14.70
X
X
X
I Matra-Chanda
X
Other Prakrit Metres :
28.47
17.107
Total 8521
X
X
(53.107-113)
X
Ending verse of the chapter No.
II Varna-Chanda
X
X
(116)
(48, 79, 102, 103, 108, 110-112, 114, 117).
(115)
(16)
(96)
(52)
15
X
(17, 22, 35, 46, 58, 87, 94)
(14, 21, 36, 64, 80, 83, 85, 91)
(49, 60, 62, 63, 113)
Total
8516
3
1
1
1
10
2
2
8536
7885
