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2. Emendations by Alsdorf have disturbed the metre.
(a) One mäträ has been reduced in 7a, 8a, 13c, 16a & 21a. (b) One mäträ has been increased and unnecessary postulation of one extra syllable, short or long, is made in 19a-b & 19c-d.
Dr. K. R. Chandra
3. Superfluous changes have been made by Alsdorf.
(a) changing of an anusvära (-) into an anunäsika (): (1) 2a nan for na (ii) 4a & 15c him for hi.
(b) Why at the end of a pada having originally a vowel with an anusvära has been replaced by a vowel with an anunäsika, i. e., a long vowel changed into a short vowel when again it is to be counted as a long mäträ. (c) Change of form was unnecessary in 20a: posehim into posesu. It reduces one mäträ. Why it should not be replaced by posesum if locative plural is to be preferred.
(d) Emendations are required further in 6a ämantiya-ussaviyarn into amantiyaṁ osaviyaṁ va.
To set right the 2nd gana which is defective U U in Alsdorf's text.
4. Postulation of an extra syllable in the first half of a pada is unwarranted. 24 a-b has 31 mätrās and therefore the postulation of one additonal syllable -
Why not cintenti be made cintenti and vaya annam ca to vāyāe ca. 5. One word is occuring twice by oversight in 20a change vasam vasam to single vasam.
6. Deficiency not pointed out (4th gana ) 28c-d (The fourth gana has three mäträs U-only).
I shall not like to discuss all the cases suggesting my emendations but two or three typical cases will serve the purpose.
Category 1, verse no. 136, 26c-d.
Category 2, verse no. 19 a/b, 19c/d, 16 a/b and 10 c/d.
Category No. 1
(1) 13 a-b. Alsdorf's text:
Avi dhūyarahi sunhähim......dhäihim aduva dāsihim.
According to Alsdorf the initial moras of the even pāda are wanting. In this pāda there are 27 mātrās only. In the Cürni, Agamodaya, Vaidya and Hyderabad editions sughāhim and thaihim readings are available but Alsdorf has nasalised him in place of him. Had Aduva been changed to Aduva to restore the missing
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