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Prakrit and Apabhramśa Studies
Ghattā. III, 838-855 is a hymn to Pārsvanātha composed in Dohās. The total does not include the figure of Dohās occurring as the second unit in the strophic metre Raddā.
No. 10. Actually Cūdāla-Dohā, as the name signifies is a 'Crested
Dohā' because in it each half of the Dohā is extended by five Mātrās. This seems to be a later development. The instances we find in MK., JC. and the Mülaśuddhiyrtti (p. 164, v 168) are the earliest known occurrences of this metre. Later on we find one instance cited in the Siddhahema (VIII 4, 419 : 6th illustration) and two instances in the Samdeśarāsaka (vv. 112, 114). The Cūdāla-Dohā is defined and illustrated by the Kavidarpana (II 17), Chandahkośa (26) and Prāksta-paingala (I 167 168). See also
Bhayani, 1945, pp. 64–65. No. 11. The short Dvipadis have been conventionally used as
variation metres in the Sandhibandha and usually they are used to detcribe a festive occasion, a battle-scene or
similar episodes. No. 12. At I 519-526 Raddā is used for a hymn to the Tirthan
kara Candraprabha. I 746 is a gnomic verse. Elsewhere it is used narratively.
The passages I 519-529, I 785-798, III 512-522 and III 838-855 are hymns sung before the images of Tirthankaras and as such are self-sufficient poems. Of these the second and the third constitute a regular Kada vaka that ends with a Ghattā.
