Sambodhi 1972 Vol 01

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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HC Bhayant
no direct contact with a living tradition Thig atate of affairs appears more or less irremediable, because there is very little that is available by way o actual specimens of these literary types
4 Now we shall examine the following passages from some Prakrit anc Sanskrit works for the light they can throw on the form and featurea o Carcast (1) The Carcart song at Kuvalayamala,1 $ 9, p 4, 1 27 to p 5, 1 7 (2) The Carcani song at Kupalayamala, $ 235, p 145, 1 7-8 (3) The Carcart song at Caupannamaha purusacariyap 1,91 (4) The Rasa aong at Upaminibhava prapancakatha, pp272-273 (5) The Rasa song at Prabhavakacarita, p 60, 11 11-15 and Prabandhakotas (6) The Carcuri description at Karbüramaħjari, iv, v 16-19
THE CARCARI SONG AT KUVALAYAMĀLA, p 4-5
5 At Kuvalayamala $9 (pp 4-5) Uddyotaga narraton how Sodharmagvamin enlightened five hundred robbers by performing before them a Rasa dance during which he sang an instructive Carcart song? Fortunately for us, Udd. yptana has also given this song . It consists of four atadzas (Vastuka) and a refrain (Dhruvaka) It begins with the Dhruvaka which is repeated after each of the Vastukas if we symbolize the Dhruvaka by D and the Vastuka by V, the arrangement is like this DV, DV, DV, DVD
6. The metre of the Dhruvaka is to be identified as Magadh or Magadhika, 1o apite of slight difficulty in the third and the fourth Pada It is a Matrametre with the schome 4 + 4 +ucu - (14 Matras) for the odd padas, and 6 + 4 + v-v- (16 Mairas) for the even Padas The rhyme schomo 18 a, b, c, d The text of the third and the fourth Pada seems to be defective, as it is short by ono Matra in the later pact The metre of the Vastukas Is Mafjart 10 It 18 a Prakrit metre of the Khanjaka clana with the schemo 3 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 4 + w - (21 Matras) for each of its four Padas 7 From the typical pattern of arrangement of the Dhruvaka and the Vastukas in this Carcant of the Kuvalayamala we can easily identify its structure as Dvi padi A Dopady according to Virabadka consists of four Vastukas each of which is followed by a Guika Between a Vastuka and a Guka we can interpolate, if we choose, any one of the followiąg four a Vidan, a Doipathaka, an Ekaka, a Vistartaka But when tho Interveniog Vidari is a Dhruyaka, 1o it is used as a refrain to be repeated after each Vastuka, the following uka was to be omitted This means that in the latter case the Dvi padi consisted of four Vastukas each of which was followed by the Dhrudaka, This structure of Dopadt is given by Virahanka on the authority of spyted prosodjsts Kambala and Agvatara, Satavahana and Harivęddha.