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GRAMMAR
cannot be fused together with the opening mora of the succeeding to form a heavy syllable. - Expressed differently, a heavy syllable cannot appear for the two contiguous morae belonging to two different 70s. So in a gas, according to the traditional definition, a heavy syllable cannot be substituted for the 14.. and the 15. mora or for the 18. and the 19. mora taken together. This fact is : indicated by the representation 6+2 +4+4+4+ u-, while in the form given by ALSDORF it is obscured, since 6 stands for all the ten forms (including www-v) possible for the 2017 177.
A few words on the name gaß. ALSDORF finds it strange that in the face of the name gas (= faget), the Ch. (and now we can also add the Sc., the Gl., the Ck. and the Kd.) defines it as a metre of four yes. In his com. on Pp. 154, daftar discusses for a different reason, whether golf is a two-lined metre, or it is four-lined. VELANKAR has fully discussed this point at AM. II S 43. Vus. III enumerates and defines no less than 57 such four-lined Pegats and Hernacandra also knows all of them by their names (see Ch. p. 32a/18). But strangely enough, the sort of the faggat treated here does not figure in those 57. Our type has the two-lined form when it is used as the opening stanza of a Sandhi in the Ap. epic. But in lyrical compositions it appears to have the four-lined form as a rule. Cf. a similar distinction of employment in the case of पद्धडिका, वदनक etc. $ 12.
10. rafort (ThOfT+). Occurrence: 208.
is the sole authority to define this metre, Vus. IV 26 gives 5+5+4+4+v- as the -scheme of the ho 37. Our stanza confirms it.
A side-point is raised by Vus. III 27 and IV 89 which respectively define the two metres called सोम्मिआ (सौम्या) and riffsar nesen (sifolosanfear) both with the To-scheme 5+5+ 4+4+u-, which is identical with the scheme of the thor, and what is more strange, while defining the folosarilsat it is
1 Only the illustrative stanza (155) in the Pp. contains two €8. 2. Probably this is identical with the oferch (5+5+4+4+3, illustration
ending in v-) of Ch. IV 1 in the neck section,
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