Chapter 47 of 618

The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 47

hari tisu biuu kui nahi || diiru bhramu bhau duri kari || 12 + 10 = 22 K.

hari tisai no Ealahi ji |j tudhu rakhai bfihari gliari 1| 12 + 10 = 22 K.

uf^ f^TO ^ nfs ^Tf^wfTO ^ Tif3 ^rfv srf fmnr sfd ii

hari jfisa no li5i dayalu so || bari japi bbau bikhamu tavi \\ 12 + 10 = 22 K.

But the metre of the Pauri may also differ from that of the Sluk, as in fact any metre may be optionally employed as well in the Slok as in the Pauri, so that the appellation of Slok and Pauri is quite indefinite and by no means implies a fixed or uniform metre. The safest thing is always to trace the metre by scanning. We subjoin hero an example of a Sl5k and Pauri taken from Kag Gauri, Bavanakhri, Mah. V., XXXV. (Transl. p. 370), in order to prove this. The Slok is scanned by 25 moras, distributed into Ganas of 4 + 6 + 6 || 6 + 3 Kalas, whereas the Pauri is scanned by 32 moras, distributed into Ganas of 2x6 + 6 + 4 Kalas. In the Pauri the hemistichs are occasionally written separately (as verses) and rhyme then together, the end-rhyme being in this case dispensed with.

TTHW TTPJ ^H iT\r TTflRHT nof^ trmfH ^ 11

nanaka | namu ntimu | japu japia || antari bahari rangi || 4 + 6 + 6 || 6 + 3 =; 25 K.

guri pur|ai upade(sia naraku || nuhi sfidha | sangi ]| 4 + 6 + 6 || 6 + 3 =: 25 K.

^T 7^^ \r3fu % TT^ II Tn t ^Tt; ^fe 7^^ tiju^ ii

nanna nara|ki parahi te | nahi || ja kai mani | tani nama ba|sahi || 2 x 6 + 6 + 4 = 32 X.

TTTH tTnn^ 3ra»?ft( ^ ttio II fmj vfTfsnn "^fu ttt -^f^ m\j% ii

namu nidha|nu gurmukhi Jo | japate || bikhu maya | mahi na oi | khapate || 2 X 6 + 6 + 4 = 32 K.

^Aio^id 7> ^3T 3T 7q II 7^^ ^ 3if^ Tts in wq II

nannaka|ru na hota | ta kahu || namu mantra | guri din5 | ja kahu 1| 2x6 + 6 + 4:= 32 K

nidha nidhana 1 hari amrita | pure || taha baje | nanaka anhada | tiue || 2 x 6 + 6 + 4 = 32 K.

The Savayya is a stanza of different length, as it may contain one, two or three couplets, now and then even more. On an average the single verse is scanned by 2 x 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 or 32 moras, the caesura dividing the same into two equal hemistichs; but there are also verses of 8 + 8 || 8 + 6, 8 + 8 II 8 + 5 and 8 + 8 || 8 + 4 moras. We meet also with verses consisting only of 8 + 8 + 8

ON THE LANGUAGE AND THE METEES USED IN THE GEANTH. cxxxvii

or 8 + 8 + 4 moras; in this case the verse is not divided by a caesura. The couplets composing the Savayya have either one common or each their own end-rhyme, occasionally also the hemistichs rhyme together, especially when the stanza consists only of one couplet.

An example of a regular Savayya is the stanza quoted on page xcv, which we wUl transcribe liere in order to show its scansion.

pai gahe tumare | jabba te tabba || te kacchu akha | tare ' nahl anyo |I 8 + 8 || 8 + 8 =: 32 K. rama rahima ^ purana kurana || aneka kahe mata | eka ' na manyo || 8 + 8 |1 8 -|- 8 = 32 K.

simrita sastara | veda sabhe bahu ]i bheda kahe hama | eka na janyo || 8 + 8 || 8 + 8:= 32 K.

siri aspana * | kripa tumari kara || mal na kahyo sabha | tohi pachanyo || 8 + 8 || 8 + 8 =i 32 K.

128 K. We insert here a Savayya consisting of two couplets, each verse of which contains 8 + 8 || 8 + 6 and 8 + 8 I] 8 + 5 moras respectively. Savaie referring to Mah. I. (Transl. p. 694):

dll^O TO VS^ 3Ti ^^ 1JW3 ^^T5 f7J^TH3 ^TEfZ Tit II

gavau guna parama | guru sukha sagara || durta nivarana | sabda sare |1 8 -f- 8 1| 8 + 6 = 30 K.

3TT^t^ f§^nf^ 33T3 T{f0Wirio^ nn3»T S^ frrfTJ -Hlf^G II

gavahi indradi | bhagata prahiladi'^ka atma rasu jini j j'lnio \\ 8 + 8 j[ 8 + 5 = 29 K..

kabi kalasu jasu ga|vau gura nauaka 1| raja jogu jini | manio || 8 + 8 || 8 -j- 5 ^ 29 K.

The Gatha, of which only a small piece (of 24 stanzas by Arjun) is to be found in the Granth, is not the usual Arya metre, consisting of 7^ feet respectively and containing 30 + 27 = 57 Kalas, but comprehends a number of the many varieties of that metre, which have come into use in the later Prakrit and are destitute of the end-rhyme, for which they substitute an internal rhyme after the twelfth mora, though not always. Each stanza must therefore be scanned by itself, in order to determine the exact metre. We subjoin here as examples the first two Gathas.

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