On Some Specimens of Carcari (A type of verse Composition in Classical Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsa and Old Gujarati)

1 Onwards from about the seventh century, we find in Sanskrit and Pra krit works numerous references to Carcart or Carcarika (Prakrit forms caccari, caccaria, Early New Indo-Aryan forms camcari, căcari etc) as a type of dance associated with the Spring Festival The dancing parties which, on these occasions, were taken out in procession, or

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भयाणी वसन्तोत्सव के गीत-नृत्य 'चर्चरी' के उपलब्ध नमूने कुवलयमाला, चउप्पन्नमहापुरिसचरिय, उपमितिभवप्रपंचा कथा और कर्पूरमंजरी से एकत्र करते हैं। विरहांक के वृत्तजातिसमुच्चय के आधार पर वे इनके छन्द द्विपदी, मागधिका तथा गलितक पहचानते हैं और मूल पाठ परिशिष्ट में छापते हैं। Bhayani assembles the surviving specimens of the Carcari, a spring-festival song and dance, from the Kuvalayamala, the Caupannamahapurisacariya, the Upamitibhavaprapanca katha and the Karpuramanjari. He identifies their metres as Dvipadi, Magadhika and Galitaka against Virahanka's Vrttajatisamuccaya, and prints the texts in an appendix.

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