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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAN
She Name of the Metre
Main body
Ending verse of the
chapter No.
Total
16
5. Upajāti
(4,9, 27, 32, 34, 40, 41, 43, 57,
69, 71, 81, 86, 89, 90, 104) 6 Drutavilambita
(8, 28) 7. Toțaka
(28.50) 8. Indravaṁsa
(50) 9. Vamśastha (28. 48)
(105) 10. Indrăvamśastha
(31) (Jāgati-Upajāti) 11. Rucirā
(51, 70, 72, 76, 78, 98) 12. Vasantatilakā
(3, 5, 10, 12, 13, 19, 25, 37, 27, 39, 42, 44, 47, 55, 61, 66, 67, 68, 74, 77, 88,
92, 93, 99-101, 106, 118) 13. Sarabha
(28. 49) 14. Malini
(2, 6, 15, 18, 23, 24, 26, 38,
53, 59, 65, 95, 109) 15. Mandākrāntā
X (29, 45, 54, 56) 16. Sardūlavikridita (118. 102 Pra. (1, 11, 20, 30, 75, 97)
śasti's opening
verse) 17. Sragdhara
(7, 33, 73, 82, 107) 18. Dandaka
(53.79)
13
115
Total Grand Total
12 8533
103 118
8651
I Mātrā-chandas
A. Main Prakrit Metre:
1. Gatha proper?:-It has 30 and 27 mātrās in the first and the second line, having either line its caesura at the 12th mātrā. The sixth gana of the first line has either 121 or 1111 scheme and the same gana of the second line has one mātrā only (Every line is divided into the ganas of four mātrās—thus there are seven gaņas in the first line and six ganas in the second line and the whole couplet must have 2 ganas of 2 mátrás and one gaña of 1 mātrā only). In 118.105b one mātrā
1. See PP, 1. 54-57 & GL, vv, 6-9.
