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A
1. 77. The area on SR. 208 says that possibly the ziuo metre is a variety of the TFT metre. The external similarity of having 21 morae has proved here misleading.
(b) Metres of the Dohā-type
11. STET ( fauen) Occurrence : (independantly) 31, 69-71, 75-81, 88-89, 138, 150, 156; (as the latter part of EET), 19, 24, 25, 222-223.
This is "the most current metre of the Ap. gnomic-didactic poetry and its position can be well described by calling it the Apabhramsa counterpart to the Prakrit 17791." It is made up of two equal hemistichs each of 24 morae, with the caesura after the 13. mora. The T-scheme is 6+4+3/6+4+1. Following are the details of the forms of the individual Tors. (Results obtained by Jacobi and Alsdorf through an analysis of the Dohäs occurring in other Ap. texts are also reproduced here from Kp., p. 72 for comparison. Hem. stands for the Dohas in the Ap. portion of Hemacandra's Prakrit grammar).
Forms of the six-moraic to : (a) the middle always -- Hem. San. KP. SR.
62%
67%
62%
52%
the middle always -/
37%
28%
31%
48%
3
only one of the middle two
- 1%
!
5%
7%
0
The figures show that the percentage of the SR. for the (6) group is the highest, that for the (a) group, the lowest, while the abnormal forms of the (c) group are here totally absent. The pre
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