[INDOLOGY] The viyoginī metre

[victor davella]

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 <
indology at list.indology.info> 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
>
>
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