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श्रमणविद्या
that the indefinite verbal form ganetuye appearing in the foot na sakkā tam ganetuye (5.28b) has been reckoned as a verb for the present study.
The number of words in the feet, referred to in Table 3, varies between three and five. The frequency of the particles and the parts of speech as particular words in the feet may be known from the table following.
Table 4
order of words
2nd 3rd
total
4th
5th
Ist 21
na mā
ad
ANA
total
24
24
24
16
From the above table it becomes evident that as second words in the feet nouns, pronouns, verbs and indeclinables occur almost uniformly, as third and fourth words nouns appear most frequently, as fourth words the verbs as well, as third words pronouns and verbs are present occasionally, while all the other occurrences are rare. Considered overall, noun proves to be the most important part of speech in the feet. Next comes verb, and it is followed in diminishing order by pronoun and indeclinable. Adjective appears very rarely.
We shall now discuss the metrical patterns of the feet referred to in Table 3. It is well-known that the second half of the early anuştubh feet presents more or less regular metrical formations. So much so, the metrical
u
frame-up of the odd feet happens to be u--"and that of even feet is u-uOf course, there are cases where this regularity has not been maintained. But such cases are rather rare, and should thus be reckoned as exceptions. In view of the said nature of anustubh feet, we propose to discuss here the metrical formations of only the first half of the feet. Details in respect of the feet are given below.
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