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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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works, these song-units ( matra-vrita :) very often show units of four mátrās (with rhyme at the end of lines as in Apabhramśa ) in the first two lines, but the metrical analysis of the Dhruvapada presents some difficulties : more so in the GV the text of which shows much irregularity. The Prabandhas are 24 in both, the same being the number of Aştapadīs or Astakas. Besides them, the number of verses is 92 in GG and 140 in GV in different Vșttas. Pappitācārya follows in his songs more or less the patterns of Jayadeva but their placement is not in the same sequence in the 24 Prabandhas. Sometimes, in some lines, words, expressions and ring are identical. So Panditācārya draws his contents from Jinasena's grand epic and adopts the metrical and poetic format from Jayadeva's artistic poem.
Jayadeva did strike a note of originality in Sanskrit Kavya poetry by the form of his GG. He has a sargabandha, but his poem contains rhyming and sonorously ringing songs which could be sung to a wider audience with catching melody and beat and with a rhyming chorus repeated. And such a form, with Krşņa and Radha as hero and heroine, was bound to be popular and highly appealing. Mixing of Vịttas and recitative songs, which eliminates monotony, reminds us of Ghattá coming at the close of Kadavakas in Apabhraíba. Krsna is Govinda, rightly a Prākrit form of Gopi + Indra rather than of Gopa + Indra; and this suits the atmosphere which Jayadeva has developed in his poem. Loving maidens flocking to Kșşpa and embracing him affords ample context for the favourite sentiment of Śrügāra. There
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