Setubandha

Author(s): Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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INTRODUCTION
Pravarasena makes effective use of alliterative devices to embellish his verses. This at times involves the repetition of words without any difference of meaning, and two examples of this are cited from our poem in the Sarasvtikanthabharana, chap. 2 : Setu 4.43 upder Laţanuprāsat; and Setu 5.19 under a variety of Padanuprāsa. In the latter verse the alliterative effect is produced by the use of cognate for ns of the same words. There is another example of this in our poem?. Similarly, the verb valai and its derivatives are often used more than once in the same verse, and sometimes even thrice. Certain other words are used three or four times in the same verses. The word khana is used five times in 12.85; nu appears four times in 8.57 and thrice in 10.81 and 13.51. Bhāravi seems to imitate Pravarasena in the similar repetition of this particle in the Kirātārjuniyak.
Another alliterative device used by Pravarasena consists in repetition of the last word of a compound at the beginning of the next and so on till the end of the verse. Rāmadāsa calls it Śråkhalabandha in his gloss on Setu 10,27. It resembles the Samdastayamaka illustrated by Dandin and employed in the
1 uahissa jasena jasam dhiram dhireņa etc. 2 Fans FanS3TE HAS Ha-Af-fach-FISI रसइ रसन्तावत्त भिजाइ भिज्जन्त-पव्वअं उअहि-जलं ॥
5.65. Cf. 6-35,12.87. 3 gafa GĦTUT-13- 5 -
9.74; and likewise valia, valanta, valanta in 6-46 and 7.29. 4 dara 6-64,10-37; addhe addhao 6-66; addha 8.52; dura 9.4; thoa 9.62; purta 15.26;
sat 15-68. 5 Bhāravi uses nu five times in 9.15 and thrice in 9.7 and more than once in
verses 42,54 and 69 of the same Canto. Cf. Māgha 10-14. 6 घण-विडवट्रिअ-तिमिरा तिमिरालिद्ध-मइलन्त-मुद्ध-किसलआ ।
for 534-forgou-FIAT FIATRICOT at afa A ll 10.27 There are four other verses with a similar arrangement : 8.4, 11:50, 13.71 and 5.68, the latter with a slight inconsistency.