Vardhamāna - Sūri's Apabhraṁśa Metres

A noteworthy feature of the religious-didactic narrative literature in Prakrit produced mostly by the Jainas of Gujarat from about the tenth century onwards was the increasing use of Apabhramṁśa. One or more complete stories, episodes etc., long or short descriptive passages and individual stanzas in Apabhiramśa were scattered throughout the work. We have biographies of

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भायाणी वर्धमानसूरि की मनोरमा-कहा (१०८४ ई.) के लगभग एक सौ साठ तथा जुगाइ-जिणिंदचरिय (११०४ ई.) के लगभग चार सौ साठ अपभ्रंश पद्यों के छन्दों का विवरण देते हैं। आल्सडोर्फ के कुमारपालप्रतिबोध-विषयक अध्ययन (१९२८) के बाद इस प्रकार का यह पहला सर्वेक्षण है। Bhayani describes the metres of the roughly one hundred and sixty Apabhraṁśa stanzas in Vardhamānasūri's Manoramā-kahā of 1084 and the four hundred and sixty in his Jugāi-jiṇiṁdacariya of 1104, the first such survey since Alsdorf's study of the Kumārapālapratibodha in 1928.

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