Indological Studies

Author(s): H C Bhayani
Publisher: Parshva Prakashan

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The Satprajñaka-gāthā and Hrdayavati
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anthology entitled Chappanaya-gāhāo in Prakrit and Satprajñakagäthäḥ in Sanskrit. Dhanapāla too may have this in view.
Of couse other Gāthās too similar in form and content to the verses of the Chappannaya-gähão were also referred to as Vidagdha-gāthās.
Among the different varieties of the Vidagdha-vinoda verses described in the Kuvalayamālā, one is called Hiyaya. The designation Hiyaya-gāhā (Sk. Hşdayagātha) is quite close to SahrdayaGāthā (Abhinavagupta) or Hşdayavati Gāthā (Ānandavardhana). And what is more the illustration given in the Kuvalayamālā (p. 176, 1.16) has a family-likeness to the Gāthās of Bhațţendurăja cited by Abhinavagupta. We may therefore suggest that the corrupt hiaalali or aali of the manuscripts stands for hiaāliā (made up of hiaa-+possessive suffix -äla-+feminine suffix -iā) which is translated in Sanskrit as hțdayavati. Such Gāthās formed, it seems, a substantial part of the Chappannaya-gāhā-koso known to Uddyotana, Anandavardhana and Ratnaprabha.
Now Upadhye has discovered and published a few years back a work called Chappannaya-gähāo. But this cannot be the original work known to Uddyotana and others. The latter was a collection of erotic Gāthă verses, as is clear from direct (Ratnaprabha's characterization) and indirect (the tone of the illustrative Gāthās given by Uddyotana and Abhinavagupta, and the characteristic context in the Puhavicaņdacariya) evidences, while the former is exclusively didactic and has an admixture of numerous Apabhramsa verses in a variety of metres. Upadhye too considers the work to be a highly inflated Jain recension of the original.18 More probably it is a different work altogether.
Lastly, while defining the metres of certain popular song-types in Apabhramśa like the Utsāha. the Dhavala, the Mangala etc., Svayain bhū in his Svayambhūcchandas treats also of two types of verse compositions called Paheli and Hiāliā. Paheli is the same as Prahelikā. Hiāliā19 eventhough it is homonymous with the word given by Abhinavagupta for Hşdayavati, refers to a different