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GRAMMAR
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Being the standard metre of the Ap. epic, it is one of the commonest of Ap. metres and as such it is treated by almost all metricians with varying details. - A पद्धडिया-line is made up of four चतुर्मात्र गणs;
v is obligatory in the last tot, facultative in the 2., forbidden in the 1. and the 3. Regarding this metre ALSDORF observes (Kp. 73): “The Paddhadikā is a metre of anapaestic (i. e. w-) basic character, which though variously violated, is still to be clearly recognised. The freedom of construction is greatest in the opening portion of the 9r; toward the end the regulation becomes stricter and the basic type of the respective to stands out more clearly. The 3. m is built up similarly to the 1. and the 4. similarly to the 2., and between 1./3. Tots on one hand and 2./4. 1078 on the other exists a certain contrast, so that a regular variation is set up in the stanza which is indeed often given up-especially in favour of a continued anapaest rhythm".
Gana 4. is most strictly regulated. In the Sr. stanzas it has the form vov without exception. In other texts the form www is also attested. The forms of the 2. O are represented as under: (a) w- 39 (41 %) (b) - 25 (27 %) wajuv 14 (15%)
yuwu 16 (17 %) 53 (56 %)
41 (44 %) The corresponding percentage for the qaisars occurring in the Kp. is 53 and 46. But Kp. has 1% of cases which are either dactyl ( - ) or spondee (--). They are totally absent in our specimen.
In the case of the 1. and the 3. stop here (as in the Kp.), ENTUT is the most frequent and t—which disturbs the anapaest rhythm most'—the most seldom verse-foot as the following figures show.
1. Hot 31 (33 %) 26 (28 %) 23 (24 %) 14 (15%)
3. stop 40 ( 43 %) 37 ( 39 %) 4 (4%) 13 (14 %) As vw vw has originated from the anapaest (cf. Gaņa 2.), we can sum up the first two figures in the case of each of the two stors and this gives us the result that “the anapaest basic tendency is still more strongly impressed on the 3. so than it is on the 1." (Kr.).
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