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The negative particles in the arustubh feet of the Buddhavamsa 297 particles parts of speech metrical
references following
patterns noun
2. 150 170 180
2. 130 140 160 pronoun
12. 28c 1. 27c 5.29c 14.14c
2.179c verb
2. 856 105b 2.148d 2.123d 15. 24b 2.107b
2.1496 na indeclinable
2.120a 5.286 2.128c 2.118d 26.140 14.295
„mā mā
The following table speaks of the frequency of metrical combinations in the earlier half of the feet referred to in Table 3.
Table 5
metrical patterns
parts of speech
total
3 3
1
2
total
6
5
7
6
24
It is thus seen that the total frequency of short and long syllables in the first half of the feet stands as follows:
short : 19 4 9 12 long : 5 20 15 12
*T* qf787-9
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