See also the note in Stenzler's Metrische Sammlung p. 27 ( https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/dmg/periodical/titleinfo/49294).
On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 3:59 AM Roland Steiner via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Arlo. > > > On p. 470, Zoetmulder 1974 (Kalangwan: A survey of Old Javanese > > literature) cites a few occurrences from the 9th-c. Kakavin Rāmāyaṇa > > and associates the name Prabodhitā with this meter. I haven't > > attempted to track down his source for this name. > > Hemacandra refers to this metre in his Chando'nusāsāna (3.14) as > "prabodhitā". > > * * * > > > The Viyoginī/Prabodhitā is, in a sense, a "frozen" form of the > Vaitālīya metre, which is defined as follows: > > 3x2 mātrās plus ra la ga; 4x2 mātrās plus ra la ga. > > The corresponding varṇavṛttas are the Viyoginī metre and the > Aparavaktra metre. > > Viyoginī: sa sa ja ga ; sa bha ra la ga > > ◡ ◡ — / ◡ ◡ — / ◡ — ◡ / — > ◡ ◡ — / — ◡ ◡ / — ◡ — / ◡ — (analysed as the varṇavṛtta "Viyoginī") > > = > > ◡ ◡ / — / ◡ ◡/ — ◡ — / ◡ — > ◡ ◡ / — / — / ◡ ◡ / — ◡ — / ◡ — (analysed as the mātrāvṛtta "Vaitālīya") > > > * * * > > Aparavaktra: na na ra la ga ; na ja ja ra > > ◡ ◡ ◡ / ◡ ◡ ◡ / — ◡ — / ◡ — > ◡ ◡ ◡ / ◡ — ◡ / ◡ — ◡ / — ◡ — ( analysed as the varṇavṛtta > "Aparavaktra") > > = > > ◡ ◡ / ◡ ◡ / ◡ ◡ / — ◡ — / ◡ — > ◡ ◡ / ◡ ◡ / — / ◡ ◡ /— ◡ — / ◡ — (analysed as the mātrāvṛtta > Vaitālīya) > > > "When such a metre has the same akṣaragaṇas in both the halves as > above [that is, as in the metres Mālabhāriṇī, Viyoginī, and > Aparavaktra], it should be considered as a varṇavṛtta; otherwise it > should be regarded as a mātrāvṛtta." (H. D. Velankar) > > Best, > Roland > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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