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A Critical Review of the Old Ārya Metre
mātrās of the fourth gana there would not have been deficiency. The Aduvā reading is now supported by the Kh-1 manuscript of the Jambū edition though not accepted by him. In the text of Alsdorf Aduvā is available at 1. 21 and 23.
1. 26 C-d Alsdorf's text : 2. Jau-kumbhe jahā uvajjoi/ samvāse vidū vi siejjā.
It has 32 mātrās in all and Alsdorf has accepted 'i' of 'uvajjoi' as an extra long syllable of the first half of the second pāda but the whole pāda is faulty and the second gana has then five mātrās. If we shorten the 'e' of 'kumbhe' into 'enkumbně and 'jahāṁ into 'jaha' then the second gana is of four short mātrās as available in other verses also and the total mātrās come to 30. In verse no. 27a the text is "jaukumbhen, the 'bhen' having short 'eň' and in the verse no. 2d there is 'jah' for 'jahā' which is obtained in the Agamodaya, Vaidya and Hyderabad editions as well as in A and I manuscripts referred to by Alsdorf. Group 2
(1) 19 a-b and c-d Sayan dukkagam ca no vayai / āittho vippakattha bāle Veyānuviyi mā kāsi / coijjanto gilãi se bhujjo.
The first pāda has 31 mātrās because the fourth gana has five mātrās and therefore postulation of one additional syllable 'i' of 'vayai'. Here 'vayai' could be changed to 'vayai' and 'vippakatthai' should be 'pakatthai' only. 'Pakatthai' reading is given by all the editions consulted by Dr. Alsdorf. The first pāda will read as follows: Sayas dukkadaň ca no vayai / äittho pakatthai bāle.
4 5 6 (2) In the second pāda 19c/d there are 32 mātrās and therefore one additional syllable is postulated in it. Here 'si' of 'kāsi' should have been shortened to 'si', i. e., 'kāsi' which is available in the Cūrņi & Kh-1 manuscript of Jambū and Punya editions. There is "manusso'si" at I. lu. and not 'si' in his edition too. The 'to' of 'coijjanto' should have been shortened to 'to' and then no necessity of an extra syllable or two extra mātrās either in 'co' or 'to' of 'coijjanto'.
(3) 16 a/b Alsdorf gives the following readings : Kuvvanti santhavam tāniñ/pabbhatthā samāhi jogehiń.
The ending syllable of a pāda always is to be counted as long then where lies the necessity of nasalising it when 'him' is available ( with an anusvāra ) in all the editions uniformly.
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