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PTTRODUCTION,
zdil It is worthy of remark that the later yamaka, the predecessor of rhymo, originally denoted the ropetition of words whereby series of verses are also interconnootod.
There is soaroely any variety of metros in the Samarkioca Kaha. Besides the common arya of which there are soveral hundreds, there are a very few verses in different metres. Four stanzas in Pramāņi which consists of four iambios, occurs on pá372,1 1-8.-On p. 72, 1 1-4 is a stanza which the author calis duvaikhandam; it is the dvipadi of Hemacandra (Chandonushgana IV, Khanjakas 14), and consists of one gaña of 6 mātrās, five of 4 måtrás, and one long syllable; the second and sixth ganas are either an Amphibrachys ( . ) or Proceleus. matious with cæsura after the first syllable uuuu), while those metres are excluded from the remaining gaņas! On p. 611, 1.88 and 612, 1-3 are two unknown gaṇacchandas, the second of which appears to be hopelessly corrupt.-A few stray dokas are probably quotations.
I enter into details about the dryk, because that metre exhibits in Prakrit some peculiarities which Indian writers on metrics have not taught, and which have usually been disregarded in Sanskrit poems. The arya (or gāha in Prakrit) seems to havo been originally a Prakrit metre; the earliest specimens ocour in the baddhist canon; sone pieces of the Therigáthas are composed in that metre. But it received its greatost refinement in Maharastrt Literature, known to us through the collection of 700 áryás ascribed to Hala ; and this arya has served as a model for all later Prakirt poets. It will suffice here to notice only those nicer metrical laws of the Prakrit áryā which were ignored by Indian writers on metrics.
1. The well-known rule that the 6th gaņa of the first lino of the dryd is either an Amphibrachy: (-) or a Proceleusmatious with 'a caesura after the first syllable" (uuuu), is but a particular case of a fundamental rule of Prakrit ganaochandas, which is based on the equivalence of these two metres and may be stated thus: if in• Prakrit-or Apabhrambana-ganacchandas particular ganas must be av Amphibrachys or Proceleusmations,
Rool visai for visai in the second lino.
