MIA Miscellany

Author(s): H C Bhayani
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H. C. Bhayani
Nirgrantha citations given in the Svayambhūcchandas are from Svayambhu's own poems : (3) The whole of the fourth Kadavaka of the 55th Sandhi of the Riţthanemicariya is composed in the Utthakka metre. It must have been one of the favourite metres with the Apabhramśa poets, as both Svayambhu and Hemacandra have treated it, but so far we have no knowledge about its occurrence in any other Apabhramsa poem. It is in the tradition of the Apabhramśa metres like Adilla and Madilla and the Prakrit metres of the Galitaka class which characteristically employed the Yamaka.
REFERENCES :
Chandonusasana of Hemacandra, Ed. H. D. Velankar, Bombay 1961.
Jānäsrayi (Prakrit section) = Appendix to Chandonuśāsana (ed. Velankar, pp. 240.2-240.16). (The Janaśrayi is an old work on Sanskrit metres composed by some Pandit at the Court of King Janaśraya, who is generally identified with Madhavavarman I of the Vişnukundin dynasty who ruled over the district of Krishna and Godavari towards the end of the sixth century A. D. - Velankar). Thânăngasuttam and Samavāyamgasuttam, Ed. Muni Jambuvijaya, Bombay 1985. Svayambhücchandas of Svayambhu : Ed. H. D. Velankar, Jodhpur 1962. The Vasudevahindi, L. D. Series 59, Jagadishcandra Jain, Ahmedabad 1977, Vrttajātisamuccaya of Virahāňka : Ed. H. D. Velankar, Jodhpur 1962. DN. Dešinamamālā of Hemacandra. DSS. Deśīšabda Kośa.