vārāhī technical_term

BRHADDEŚĪ ²²⁴ क्षत्रियाणा कुलं चैव रसो रौद्रः प्रकीर्तितः । यत्रानलगणा पञ्च षष्ठो वायुगणस्तथा ॥ एला हंसावती हन्त सा स्मृता गीतपारगैः ॥४३०॥ [३. नन्दावती] लघुभिर्गमकैर्युक्ता रागे मालवकैशिके । एला नन्दावती नाम प्रतितालेन गीयते ॥४३१॥ इन्द्राणी देवता, वृत्तिः सात्त्वती तत्र कीर्तिता । गौडीया कथ्यते रीतिः, पीतो वर्णः स्मृतो बुधैः ॥ ४३२॥ रसो वीरः समाख्यातो, वैश्याना कुलसम्भवा। व्यः नादावत्यामिव सर्वं कर्तव्यं रागपूर्वकम् ॥४३३॥ (न?ना) यत्राम्बरगणा पञ्च मार्तण्डगणसंयुता । मार्ताण्ड॰ एला नन्दावती सा तु विज?्ञेया गीतवेदिभिः ॥४३४॥ [४. भद्रावती] एकैकपदसंयुक्ता मूर्छनाध्वनिसङ्कुला । कङ्कालतालसम्बन्धा ककुभेन प्रगीयते ॥४३५॥ एला भद्रावती नाम शूद्रजातिसमुद्भवा । कृष्णवर्णा च विज?्ञेया वैदर्भीरीतिशोभिता ॥४३६॥ भारतीवृत्तियुक्ता च बीभत्सरसभूषिता । वाराहीदेवतोपेता कथिता गीतकोविदैः ॥४३७॥ यत्र भूमिगणा पञ्च षष्ठो जलगणस्तथा । भद्रावतीति विख्याता सा स्मृता मुनिपुङ्गवैः ॥४३८॥ पुटपुङ्गवैः (?)

VIMARŠA ³¹⁹ 57. Ratigana is fourfold and is composed of two syllables each – SS, IS, SI, II. 58, 59. Dhātu-mātu stand for tonal-cum-rhythmic and verbal structure of a composition respectively. 60. Twice Rudra would mean 11 \times 2 = 22. 61. Bāṇagaṇa is of 16 kinds, each one composed of four syllables. 62. Here only the number of syllables is regulated and not their long and short order. 63. Alaghu - that which is not laghu or short. 64. No regulation of the order of long and short syllables is prescribed. 65. See notes 46, 52. 66. 'Yati' is a word that stands for splitting or pause in metre. In tāla, yati means the order or sequence of layas. Here the first meaning seems to be relevant. 67. This is again a reference to Matanga within the text. See note 3. 68. Samā yati is that where one and the same laya is sustained from the beginning to the end. 69. Şaţpadī means 'one having six feet '. Śaṅkarācārya's şaţpadī beginning with 'avinayamapanaya viṣṇo' is well - known. 70. Srotogatā yati is that where there is slow laya in the beginning followed by fast, like the source of a river that gradually gains speed in its current. Samā has been explained in note 68. 71. Gopucchā yati is the opposite of srotogatā; it is fast in the beginning and gradually becomes slow, like the end of the cow's tail which is first thin and then ends up with a thick bunch of hair. 72. See note 46. 73. 'Varṇadhvani' would literally mean 'the sound of syllables'; perhaps the contrast of a cluster of syllables in song, followed by a text-free tonal rendering is implied. 74. Mūrchanā is not known as a kind of gamaka. The combination of 'mūrchanā' with gamaka requires further investigation. 75- 79. Lāţa (approximately present Gujarat), Karṇāta (roughly present Karnataka), Gauda (roughly present Bengal), Andhra (roughly present Andhra Pradesh) and Dravida (roughly present Tamilnadu) are the regions selected for description of types of elā prabandha. Important omissions are Pāṇcāla, Avantī or Mālavā, Vidarbha etc. SR also mentions only the above five regions in this context. 80,81. The description of the regional specialities in the use of rhyme and alliteration is interesting indeed.