kavidarpan

Author(s): H D Velankar
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishtan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1 Preface by the General Editor ... 2 Introduction : (Figures within brackets refer to Paragraphs.) (a) Kavidarpana : Abbreviations and works referred to
here in a foot-note on p. 1; The sources of our knowledge of the work (1); Jinaprabha's references to Kavidarpaņa examined (2); the only manuscript of the work (3); authors and works quoted in the work (4); general nature of the contents (5); contents of chs. 1 and 2; the peculiar classification of the Mātrā Vịttas, including strophes, in view of the number of Pādas in a stanza or a strophe; strophic couplets and triplets in Sanskrit and Prākrit literature (6); the three Dvipadis, i.e., metres of 2 Pādas each (7); two of them called Ullāla; the meaning of the term Ulläla (8); Catuspadis: the Gāthā as the chief among them; its nature and the metres derived from it (9); the 10 Ardhasama Catuspadis; the Sama Catuspadis of 16 Mātrās in a Pada; the longer Sama Catuspadis and the Ardhasama Catuspadis (10); The Pañcapadi metre Mātrā rather neglected by the author (11); origin and kinds of Şatpadis, the Dhavalas and the Mangalas (12); Strophic couplets: Şatpada and Phulla (13); other couplets (14); contents of ch.3: Mere enumeration of the 26 Jātis beginning with Uktā: The significations of the words Jāti, Chandas and Vrtta; Mātrā Vrtta and Varna Vrtta (15); contents of ch. 4: 109 Varņa Vșttas defined; significations of the words Vitāna, Samāni and Pramāņi (16); the term Vitāna used in other works on prosody (17); contents of ch. 5: the Ubhaya Chandas, namely, the group of 11 metres headed by the Vaitālīya; the six Pratyayas treated very briefly in ch. 6 (18).
I-XXIX (b) Gäthälaksana of Nanditādhya: Contents (19); The author and his probable age (20).
XXX - XXXII (c) Chandahkośa of Ratnasekhara : Contents (21); the
author; Ratnasekhara and Prākṣta Paingala (22); unscientific nature of the treatment (23); Mātrā Vșttas:
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