Setubandha

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

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INTRODUCTION
Bhaṭṭikavya 10.8', but it is essentially different from a yamaka, in which the repeated syllables in spite of their verbal similarity are intended to convey different meanings.
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The Srikhalabandha is an old device frequently used in Prakrit poetry, and sometimes also in prose, and has been traced by Jacobi to the Sutrakṛtānga 1.15 of the Ardhamagadhi canon.2 It appears to have two varieties in Prakrit poetical literature. The first is the one used in the Setubandha as stated above; and at least three examples of this are found in Uddyotana's Kuvalayamala where it appears in groups of two or more verses, the repetition of the words being continued from one varse to another. The other variety appears in groups of verses usually composed of long compounds, in which the last word of the first line is repeated at the beginning of the second line, and the last word of the second line at the beginning of the next verse and so on to the end of the group.
The use of verbs in more or less close succession sometimes gives a certain picturesqueness to a verse, as in Setu 5.70; 10.59; 11.3,8; 13.485.
Pravarasena makes limited use of Ślesa. It is also noteworthy that the Setubandha does not contain any example of Citrakavya.
1 The commentatators call it Kāñcīyamaka, but Bharata in his gloss on the verse points out that it is the same as the Samdaṣṭayamaka defined by Daṇḍin in Kavyadar'sa 3.51,52.
2 Introd. to Samaraiccakahā, p. xxii.
3 See Kuvalayamālā, ed. Upadhye, pp. 14,18,171.
4 kuvalayamālā, pp. 60,96,112,118,134; Samaraiccakahā. pp. 79,423-24,449,478-99; Lilavat, vv. 353-55, 1323-26. ed. Upadhye.
5 . 8, धूमाइ जलइ विहडइ ठाणं सिढिलेइ मलइ मलउच्छङ्ग 5.70.