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and neträhinena (72), an example of the sakapārthiva com-
pound a species of compound that omits its middle member.
INTRODUCTION
METER
The meter of the Süryaśataka is the sragdhara, in which are
also composed some of the stanzas of the Mayurāṣṭaka and a
number of the anthology stanzas attributed to Mayura. It con-
sists of 21 syllables, with caesural pauses after every seventh
syllable, the scheme being as follows:-
---।-~।-॥~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~-॥-।-- ।~ --
This is not among the most widely-used meters,¹ although em-
ployed by Mayūra in the Süryaśataka, and by Bāṇa in the
Candidataka. Kālidāsa has occasional recourse to it, as for
example in the Sakuntală, act 1, stanzas I and 7, and in the
Malavikāgnimitra, act I, stanza 1, and act 2, stanza 12. Bhar-
tṛhari also employs it 22 times in his three śatakas, as noted by
Dr. Louis H. Gray, in his article The Metres of Bhartrihari, ap-
pearing in JAOS, vol. 20, first half (1899), p. 157-159.
For comment on, and discussion of the sragdhară, see the
article La metrica degli Indi, parte 2, La poesia profana, by A.
Ballini, published in Pulle's Studi Italiani di Filologia Indo-
Iranica, vol. 8, puntata 1 a, 2 a, 3 a, Firenze, 1909, 1910, 1912;
especially puntata 3 a, p. 132. See also Pingala's Chandaḥśāstra,
7. 24 (in the edition by Kedāranātha and Paṇashikar, Bom-
bay, 1908, in the Kävyamālā Series), and Albrecht Weber's
monograph Ueber die Metrik der Inder, published in Indische
Studien, vol. 8, especially p. 400-401, Berlin, 1863.
In the Suryaśataka I have not noted any metrical irregularities
in the text of Durgaprasãd and Parab's second edition, which I
have adopted as the standard. Bühler (IA, vol. I, p. 115, foot-
note) and Max Müller (India: What Can It Teach Us?, p. 330,
note 3) are wrong in stating that the meter of the Süryaśataka
is fardulavikriḍita.
1 For a list of the occurrences of the sragdhard meter in the principal
works of classical Sanskrit poetry, see Kühnau, Metrische Sammlungen
aus Stensler's Nachlass, in ZDMG, vol. 44 (1890), p. 1-82, especially p. 82.
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and neträhinena (72), an example of the sakapārthiva com-
pound a species of compound that omits its middle member.
INTRODUCTION
METER
The meter of the Süryaśataka is the sragdhara, in which are
also composed some of the stanzas of the Mayurāṣṭaka and a
number of the anthology stanzas attributed to Mayura. It con-
sists of 21 syllables, with caesural pauses after every seventh
syllable, the scheme being as follows:-
---।-~।-॥~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~-॥-।-- ।~ --
This is not among the most widely-used meters,¹ although em-
ployed by Mayūra in the Süryaśataka, and by Bāṇa in the
Candidataka. Kālidāsa has occasional recourse to it, as for
example in the Sakuntală, act 1, stanzas I and 7, and in the
Malavikāgnimitra, act I, stanza 1, and act 2, stanza 12. Bhar-
tṛhari also employs it 22 times in his three śatakas, as noted by
Dr. Louis H. Gray, in his article The Metres of Bhartrihari, ap-
pearing in JAOS, vol. 20, first half (1899), p. 157-159.
For comment on, and discussion of the sragdhară, see the
article La metrica degli Indi, parte 2, La poesia profana, by A.
Ballini, published in Pulle's Studi Italiani di Filologia Indo-
Iranica, vol. 8, puntata 1 a, 2 a, 3 a, Firenze, 1909, 1910, 1912;
especially puntata 3 a, p. 132. See also Pingala's Chandaḥśāstra,
7. 24 (in the edition by Kedāranātha and Paṇashikar, Bom-
bay, 1908, in the Kävyamālā Series), and Albrecht Weber's
monograph Ueber die Metrik der Inder, published in Indische
Studien, vol. 8, especially p. 400-401, Berlin, 1863.
In the Suryaśataka I have not noted any metrical irregularities
in the text of Durgaprasãd and Parab's second edition, which I
have adopted as the standard. Bühler (IA, vol. I, p. 115, foot-
note) and Max Müller (India: What Can It Teach Us?, p. 330,
note 3) are wrong in stating that the meter of the Süryaśataka
is fardulavikriḍita.
1 For a list of the occurrences of the sragdhard meter in the principal
works of classical Sanskrit poetry, see Kühnau, Metrische Sammlungen
aus Stensler's Nachlass, in ZDMG, vol. 44 (1890), p. 1-82, especially p. 82.
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