14* A Discovery of a Long Metre in Prabodhachandrodaya 



By Venkatesh Vaman Sovani, M.A. 



At the end of Act IV we have a long passage forming a 

 magnificent hymn of AdikeSava at Benares. It extends over 

 pp. 162-164 of the Nirnayasagar Edition of the play furnished 

 with two commentaries. It runs thus : 



^ranefwr^Tt^srw ^jrrw^^s^WRfr^f^ra^ftf^r?-- 





*, « *, 





^TW^Tr? T Wf R?^*?( 9 )***-r**73 %*S *fB*g ^ft^^T 



**nT«Hf^ ^fr white* ^9 ?i»b srws i 



As far as our knowledge goes nobody has considered 

 this long passage to be metrical. But, to speak the truth, 

 it is governed by the laws of metre as can be easily seen by 

 scanning each portion of the said passage. Among these vari- 

 ants the first is *3*K^*r^$^*r° and the last is ^T^^r^tTa ; 



the rest can be understood. Only we have to adopt the vari- 

 ants given in circular brackets which are chosen mostly from 

 old MSB. of the play and are to be found in Brockhaus' Edi- 

 tion of the play also. They are not the readings adopted by 

 the commentary Praka^a except the first variant which is 



