Mahanisiha Studies And Edition In Germany

Author(s): Chandrabhal Tripathi
Publisher: Chandrabhal Tripathi

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Chandrabhal Tripathi
15. METRES
15.0. About the metrical structure of the MNA, Schubring (e.g. MNSt.A,p.34) remarks that anuştubh is the metre favoured by the author, though āryā was the prevailing metre in his time. Both, Hamm (MNSt.C, pp.14-16) and Deleu (MNSt.B,pp.15-17) present a metrical survey of sample verses of Chap. VI and I-II respectively, which is reproduced here. – Note: a b c d refer to pādas, a/c to pāda a OR c; b/d to pāda b OR d. G = heavy syllable (guru); L = light syllable (laghu) – The use of the asterisk denoting verses is obviously superfluous in our section 15. 15.1 For the first one hundred anuştubh verses of Chap. VI (vss. 1-101, vs.30 is an āryā) Hamm prepared statistics (1) of the number of syllables in a pāda, (2) of the opening of the pādas, and (3) of the cadence of the pādas. Deleu examined 400 pādas of one hundred verses "selected at random throughout Chap. I-II" to prepare corresponding statistics”.
15.2.0 Of the total of 422 pādas (some verses having 6 pādas) in Chap. VI, 198 pādas, · i.e. 46.9%, do not have the correct number of syllables. In Chap.I-II, out of 400 pādas,
192 pādas, i.e. 48%, have an irregular number of syllables:
Remarks
Syllables
Chap. VI.vss.1-101 Chap.1-1139
16(a/c: 9;b/d: 7) | 11(6:7.c:1.d:3) 9 . 138(79;59)
123(41.27.26.29) 10 35(15;20)
44(12.7.14.11) 11 7(4:3)
8(3.4.1.1) 12 1(VI.84a )
3(all d ) 14
1(VI.85d ) 15
1(11.93d ) 1(II.91b )
1(II.1080) [A] These three pādas are: 1.79d, 137, 138d.
(See below (A))
with
18
extrametrical
additions?
39 The vss. are: 1.21-30, 71-80, 91-100, 131-140, 213-222; 11.51-60, 91-99, 106-115, 151-160, 191-200.