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104c-
f 34CA (TAT) . 105-107 191
108 4764 109-110 THI
111 HCA 112 54 113 TAI
114 qism4 115-116 5654
200-203
204 205-207
208 209-212
213 214-220
221 222-223
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III FORM AND STRUCTURE As stated at the beginning, there is not one but several aspects from which the SR. proves to be of considerable importance and interest. In the present section we shall consider the literary form of the SR, which is so novel as to bestow on it the distinction of being êhe first Ap. text of its kind published so far. As the title of the SR. indicates, it is a The type of poetic composition. By this one would be instantly reminded of the Ti compositions whose exuberance in the Old Gujarati literature is so remarkable. But the form of the present That is, as the treatment below indicates, altogether different.
There are two prosodists who at all take any notice of the Th1 form. The addition they make to our knowledge, though meagre, is quite welcome in view of the general paucity of information relating to the structural side of the Ap. poetry.? Of these two prosodists one is facere. The portion IV 27 to IV 38 of his father evidently, though not expressly, deals with a few Ap. metres, strictly so called. This small section, after treating SIET, HPTEC, HET, ST, 3715H and
ends up by defining the 145 form at 37-38. We come to know from this that two different types of रासक were familiar to विरहाङ्क VJS. IV 37 says that रासक is constituted with विस्तारितकs or द्विपदीs closed with faget. All these peculiar terms are defined by farels at
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