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metres containing 16 moras per Pada and employed in the Ap. epic called in all probability the Sandhibandha". Besides it was the name of a particular metre having the form 4+4+4+- U-U. It is likely that as in the case of the other terms mentioned above, the development of the application may have been from the general to the particular. In other words because the metre with the form 4+4+4+U --U was fondly employed in the Sandhibandha that alone came to be called the Paddhadikā. From the remarks ādi sabdad Vadanādi parigrahaḥ of the com. of the Kavidarpana", we know that over and above the Paddhadikā, Vadanaka and some other metre or metres were used for the main body of the Ap. epic, and this finds support from the actual practice as evidenced by the works of Svayambhū, Tribhuvana, Puşpadanta and others. Occurrence 1 (4-11, 13., 15.-16. Kadavakas), 3. (13. Kadavaka)
4., 7., 10., 13., 16., 18. Sandhis. Seven out of the twenty Sandhis or, on a different count, 91 out of a total of 285 Kadavakas are composed in this metre. Its normal form is +4+4+4 U – U, Jagana being permitted in the 1., 3. For a systematic treatment of this metre see Alsdorf, 1928, 73; 1936, 190; Jacobi, 1918,* 48; Bhayani, 1945, 56-57. The 1. Gana enjoys great freedom of form, though - UC finds a preference (about 60 p.c.). As contrasted with this the 3. Gana has the form UU - (or UUUU) in about 70 p.c. of the cases. Accordingly in the case of the Paddhadiās of PC., Alsdorf's results that the Paddhadia is a metre of anapaestic basic character and that its 3. Gana is built up similarly to the first shall have to be modified. In the 2. Gaņa the form - UU is the least preferred (about 12 p.c.), while tu- has a relative majority. This presents a contrast with the 1. Gana. The end is rarely U UVV (about 5 p.c.) (23). Va dan aka. Occurrence. 1. (2., 12., 14. Kadavakas), 2., 3. (2., 12. Kadavakas), 5. (1-5., 7-16. Kadavakas) 8., 11., 14., 17. (1., 7., 9., 11., 13., 15., 18. Kadavakas), 20. Sandhis.
This metre is found in eight whole Sandhis out of a total of twenty, or in 112 Kadavakas out of 285 in all. It is defined by most of the Pk. metricians". For its discussion, see Jacobi 1918, * 47 Alsdorf, 1928, 76; 1936, 191; Shahidullah, 1928, 63; Bhayani 1945, 50.
Though Hemacandra has expressly given the designation Vadanaka, and though Adila is the name given to a special form of the Vadanaka, yet Jacobi and Alsdorf, following perhaps the ‘Bardic group of metricians accept the name Adila for our metre. But from SC. IV 32 and the Kavidarpaņa II 21 it is quite clear that the metre should be named Vadanaka, it being called Adila only when it has got Yamakas.
6+4+4+2 is the general scheme of the Vadanaka. A sample analysis indicates that in the 1. Gana froms-UU- and UUUU - occur more frequently, and generally the forms with two shorts in the middle are preferred. -U-U and ---- have the smallest frequency. In the 2. Gaņa one third of the total number of cases (1) cf. the term Rāsábandha at SC. VIII 49 and the description of the Sk. Mahā
kavya as Sargabandha. (2) Velankar, 1935-1936, 49, 51. (3) SC. IV 29, Raj. 16, Ch. V 28, Kavidarpana II 21; compare also Vrttajättsa
muccaya IV 33-34, Chandaḥkośa 41-42, Prakrtapaingala I 127.
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