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on Bharata's Nātyaśāstra'.. He is mentioned by Svayambhū (at tue
Svayambhū-chandas' 1/144), Namisādhu (at the commentary of Rudrata's "Kāvjālankāra' 1/20), Jayakirti (at 'Chandont śāsana 8/19), Hemacandrā. cārya (at 'Chandonuśāsana 2/297) and Nārāyana (at the commentary of •Vșttaratpakara' 2/36). This shows that Jayadeva was considered an authority on chaqdaḥśāstra.
In the first verse of the first chapter Jayadeva has used a word Vardhamäna' which is ślişța and refers to Vardbamāna Mabāvira. Jayadeva has first explained 'Sanjñās' and then defined the Vedic metres briefly. Thereafter he has treated Mātrā chaodas like Arya, Vaitālıya, Mātrāsamaka etc., Vișama, Ardhasama and Samavșttas, Dandakas and Prastāras. Like Pingala, Jayadeva bas defined Vedic metres in sū'ras, but unlike the former, he has defined 'Laukika' meires by a line or a verse of that particular metre. This method of defining a metre by a line of that metre is accepted in "Vpitaratpakara' and several other works. He has not given illustration of any metre separately.
Following Pingala, he has used ya, ma, ta, ra, ja, bha, na, sa, and la, ga as definiag units. He has used symbolic words like yuga, rasa, vasu etc. to convey various numbers in both the sections of Vedic and Lavkika metres. Pingala has used this device for Laukika metres only.
Jayadeva has defined eight such metres which are not found in Pingala. For ten metres his names are different from those of Pingala.
We can see that Jayadeva-Chandas' of Jayadeva is an independent, exhaustive and systematic work of Sanskrit prosody.
SVAYAMBHŪ :-Svaya nbhū has written "Svayambbūcchandas' which is an important manual of Prakrit and Apabhramśı metres. According to H. C. Bhayani, Svayambhū flourished in the latter half of the sixth ceat. A.D..7
There are fourteen chapters in the 'Svayambhūcebandas'. Eventhough the metres are defined in Prakrit languaçe, Svayambhū is considered here as he has als) dealt with varņa vşłtas. Moreover he is a predecessor of revered Hemacandrācārya and as pojoted out by Jinavijayaji Muni, Hemacandra's arrangement, classification and illustrations of metres one much to Svayambhū.8 Dr. H. C. Bhajani also recognises the indebtedness of Hemaçandra to Svayambhū in these wordsMany of Hemacandra's
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