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The Apabhramśa Passages of Abhinavagupta
1
Dohā
Ragaḍā
Dhruvaka
2
Upadohaka 4.1,9.3,13.1,
(total 3)
Mahānu
bhāvā (?)
5.1,9.1,9.2,11.1, Antarasamā 13(=6+4+uuu)+11 (61 îù — +u)
Catuşpadi
12.1,20.1. (total 6)
4.2,6.2,10.2,
17.1,19.1,
(total 5)
3
Śaśibimbita(?) 6.1,7.1,10.1,
4
Antarasama 12(=6+4=uu)+11
Catuspadi
(6+uu - +u)
Sarvasamā
Catuspadi
16(4+4+4+4) (rhyme b, d)
Antarasama 16(=4+4+4+4)+ 10.5,14.1,18.1, Catuspadi 15(=4+4+4+-u) (total 6)
Chaddania- 10.3,10.4,13.2 Antarasamā 16(=4+4+4+4)+ (III) (total 3)
Catuspadi
9(=4+-uuu)
8.1
Sarvasamā 12(=4+4+4)
(total 1)
Catuspadi
287
(4)
Abhinavagupta's Sanskrit commentary on the Paratrimšikā has seven Apabharamsa verse passages, functioning as Samgraha-ślokas. They are to be found on page numbers 16, 18, 65, 93, 112, 216217 and 272 of the printed edition. Each of the passages on pp. 16, 18, 112, and 272 consists of a single stanza. The passage on p. 65 is made up of two stanzas. That on p. 93 sems to consist of four stanzas. The long passage on pp. 216-217 still remains mostly impenetrable. I have not succeeded in arranging it in any sort of satisfactory metrical shape. Even then on the basis of a few meagre clues, it seems to me to be containing ten stanzas. The passages with their original text, their metrically arranged and partly corrected text and the corresponding Sanskrit chaya (wherever feasible) are given below.
