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GLOSSARY
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(5) This amounts to the famous puzzle of moving the knight so
that it touches every square only once. I am indebted to V. Raghavan
for suggesting the nature of the solution. It is beyond my powers
to complete it.
daņda, 'stick": (1) probably the same as khadga. (2) AP 343.37, 55. (5)
No example.
datta, 'given': (1) probably a group of conundrums which function by
adding certain significant parts of the written Sanskrit sentence, as
vowel indictors, nasal vowel marks (anusvāra), final aspiration
(visarga), and perhaps consonants. (2) AP 343.22, 29. (4) "But the
old fellow feels a slight dissatisfaction / With the uninspiring process
of pure subtraction. / The evidence would indicate he's taken as his
mission The improvement of the road signs by the process of
addition. Thus Traffic Light Ahead' / Becomes "Traffic Slight
Ahead' / And 'Gas and Oil' / Is improved to 'Gasp and Boil..."
(Morris Bishop). (5) No Sanskrit examples are given, but the context
permits a comparison with cyuta and leads to the inference that
datta is the reverse of this. Like cyuta, the games depend on the
fact that the short vowel "a" is inherent in every syllable, and that
graphically other vowels and vowel aspects are superscripts to that
simple vowel. The second type, "consonantal" datta, presents more
of a problem, but may refer to adding parts of ligatures, as "r"
which is an obvious superscript.
duşkara, 'difficult to accomplish': (1) a general name for various types of
picture verses and geometric verses. (2) D 3.78, 83, AP 342.20,
343.32. (5) In general, duşkara is distinguished from puzzles and
conundrums, which Dandin includes in prahelikā and the Agni
Purāņa calls citra. Duşkara then refers to those extensions of yamaka
in which the principle of repetition is not linear, or in which the
limitation on occurrence applies only to certain letters (e.g., one
vowel or consonant) or to certain places in the verse (picture verses).
These two types are clearly delimited by Dandin (reference cited),
who does not recognize any pictorial verses. (His gomutrika may
provide the key to the explanation of the origin of these latter: for
Daṇḍin, the zig-zag is clearly a geometrical verse with a graphic
name; it may have encouraged others, more literal minded, to
15
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6
8
183
4
10
3
11 7 9
(5) This amounts to the famous puzzle of moving the knight so
that it touches every square only once. I am indebted to V. Raghavan
for suggesting the nature of the solution. It is beyond my powers
to complete it.
daņda, 'stick": (1) probably the same as khadga. (2) AP 343.37, 55. (5)
No example.
datta, 'given': (1) probably a group of conundrums which function by
adding certain significant parts of the written Sanskrit sentence, as
vowel indictors, nasal vowel marks (anusvāra), final aspiration
(visarga), and perhaps consonants. (2) AP 343.22, 29. (4) "But the
old fellow feels a slight dissatisfaction / With the uninspiring process
of pure subtraction. / The evidence would indicate he's taken as his
mission The improvement of the road signs by the process of
addition. Thus Traffic Light Ahead' / Becomes "Traffic Slight
Ahead' / And 'Gas and Oil' / Is improved to 'Gasp and Boil..."
(Morris Bishop). (5) No Sanskrit examples are given, but the context
permits a comparison with cyuta and leads to the inference that
datta is the reverse of this. Like cyuta, the games depend on the
fact that the short vowel "a" is inherent in every syllable, and that
graphically other vowels and vowel aspects are superscripts to that
simple vowel. The second type, "consonantal" datta, presents more
of a problem, but may refer to adding parts of ligatures, as "r"
which is an obvious superscript.
duşkara, 'difficult to accomplish': (1) a general name for various types of
picture verses and geometric verses. (2) D 3.78, 83, AP 342.20,
343.32. (5) In general, duşkara is distinguished from puzzles and
conundrums, which Dandin includes in prahelikā and the Agni
Purāņa calls citra. Duşkara then refers to those extensions of yamaka
in which the principle of repetition is not linear, or in which the
limitation on occurrence applies only to certain letters (e.g., one
vowel or consonant) or to certain places in the verse (picture verses).
These two types are clearly delimited by Dandin (reference cited),
who does not recognize any pictorial verses. (His gomutrika may
provide the key to the explanation of the origin of these latter: for
Daṇḍin, the zig-zag is clearly a geometrical verse with a graphic
name; it may have encouraged others, more literal minded, to