पृष्ठ:पउमचरिउ.djvu/१२४

INTRODUCTION moras and hence only the following eight forms are permitted: UUUUUU. UUUII, UU --CUUU1:1, t't' -- 'U, VU This means that all the Pādas of the stanzas in question are also divisible as 4+4. Now on the strength of the convention of count- ing the end syllable long, we can regard those Pādas which end in vu, as containing 9 moras divisible as 4+5. And the Dvipadi Jambhettia (SC. VII 11, Ráj. 235, Ch. VII 67) has the scheme 4+5. Consequently, if we come across the commencing stanzas of MP. 6 1. 6 3 and 6 7 isolated from their context and without the name of the metre prefixed to them, it would not be possible for us to tell whether the metre is Malaavilasiyā or Jambhettiä. But SC. can help us in quite a different way to solve this prob- lem. Svayambhū has taken several stanzas from his PC. to illus- trate some of the metres in SC. In the case of these stanzas we pos- sess an unusual means: their metre is named and their structure is defined by their author himself. There can be nothing more defi- nite than this. And the considerably corrupt character of the text of these illustrations in SC. need not hinder our investigation be- cause we have an access to their correct text from PC. Moreover, the Ghattâs of any one Sandhi being normally in one and the same metre, we can use additional data also, to check up the observations of SC. The table below indicates the common stanzas between SC. and PC. along with the names and schemes of their metres. Occurence SC. Metre Scheme in PC. 1. V 5 4th Şaţpada-jāti 7-+7+13 3 3 11 2. V 9 6th Satpada-avajāti 9+9+15 14 7 9 3. VI 42 Vammahatilao 8-1 14 65 1 4. VI 71 Candujjuo 9+16 77 5. VI 74 Raanăvali 9+17 77 13 13 6. VIII 4 Maanăvaara 5 X 4 24 2 1-2 7. VIII 6 Dhuvaa 9 33 3 9 8. VIII 17. 5th Chaddaņiā 71-7-7-13(?) 3 1 9. VIII 21 7th Chaddania 10+-8-1-13 31 10. VIII 25 1st Ghatta 9-14 41 11. VIII 27 2nd Ghatta 12 5 1 Of these Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 9 are Şatpadis, Nos. 6, 7 and 11 are Samacatuşpadis and Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 10 are Antarasamă Catușpadis. Excepting No. 6 all the stanzas are Ghattās appearing either at the beginning of a Sandhi or at the end of a Kadavaka. The text of SC. VITI 17 is corrupt and the meaning is obscure. Therefore No. 8 is to be left out from consideration. Now SC. V 5, V 9 and VIII 20 tell us that the Şaţpadis employed in PC. 3 3 11, 14 7 9 and 31 1 have the respective schemes 7+7+13, 97-9+15 and 10+84-13. If we examine the text of these stanzas in PC. we find that actually their schemes are 6+6+12, 8-684-14 and 10+8+13 respectively. This means that in the first two cases the end syllable in all the Pādas is to be regarded as long, but in the last case it is to have its actual value. The basis of this discrimination is not clear. The normal expectation is either to assign uniformly its actual value to the end syllable or alternatively to regard it uniformly long. And in the structure of the stanzas themselves there is nothing to account for this discrimination, so that we could take their measures to be either 6-6+-12, 87-8-7-14 and 10+-87-13 or 7+7+13, 9+95-15 and 11+9+14. If we look up the other Ghattås of these Sandhis we find that in the case of the Ghatta of 14 2, the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th 1 1