Chapter 45 of 618

The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 45

dhuri purabi kartai likhia | tina gurmati nami samai \\ 13+ 13:= 26 K.

vinu sati gura pratiti na aval | nami na lago bhau || 13 + 11 = 24 K. ipjRi flrw 7J VT^^:rtf Vfl^?T% JT»nf^ II ^^

supanai sukkhu na pavai | dukha mahi savai samai || 1 3 + 1 1 =: 24 K.

' The f'hapal is not to be found iu the Granth, but is much employed by Goviud Singh.

ox THE L.iXGUAGE AND THE METRES USED IN THE GRANTH. cxxxiii

Astpad! consisting of two distiolis severally, Sirl Rag, Mah. V., I., 1 (Transl. p. 96):

Ja kau muskala ati banai | dliol koi na dCi || 13 + 11 = 24 K.?5T3T n§ ^»T»T;^ TW f3 3ffT M^ II

lagu hoe dusmana | siika bin bhajji kballe || 13 + 11 = 24 K.

sabbho bhajjai asara | cukai sabhu asarau || 13 + 11:= 24 K.

citi aval 5su parbrahamu | lagai na tatti vau || 13 + 11 =24 K.

The Slok used in the Granth is not to be confounded with the epic Sanskrit Shlok consisting of 1 6 + 1 6 syllables, the word Slok being taken in the Granth in the more general sense of a stanza. The Slok of the Granth consists usually of one distich, but also of a triplet, or two or three distichs, which, rhyme at the end, there being a caesura in each verse after the twelfth mora; the whole verse is scanned by 12 + 10:= 22 moras.

kabira merl simarani | rasna upari ramu || 12 + 10 =: 22 K.

adi jugadi sagala bhagta | ta ko sukhu bisramu |1 12 + 10 = 22 K.

44 K. JapjT, Slok at the end of it (Transl. p. 13):

pavanu guru pan! pita | mata dharti mahatu || 12 + 10 = 22 K.

t^^^ Trf3 TfS TTFt Trf2»>n ¥^ W[^ yUl3 II

divasu rati dui dai. day a | khelai sagala jagatu || 12 + 10=: 22 K.

cangyaia buryaia | vacai dharmu haduri || 12 + 10 = 22 K.

karami apo apni | ke nerai ke duri |1 12 + 10:= 22 K.

jinT namu dhiaia | gae samakati ghuli || 12 + 10 ^ 22 K.

nanaka te mukha ujale | ketl chuti nali || 12 + 10 = 22 K.

132 k7 Remarl. In the Bh5g of the Granth (see p. ccxxi) there are some Sloks by Nanak and Arjun called *\V>M TvUrt^^Y- As they are neither Sanskrit Shloks nor composed in the Shloka metre,

cxxxiv O'S THE LANGUAGE AND THE METRES USED IN THE GRANTH.

the question is, what is meant by J1555' JTTIJrf33^? The easiest solution would be to understand by it the Sanskriti metre, which is much used in Prakrit. In Prakrit poetry the Sanskriti is a stanza consisting of four verses, which together contain the number of 96 moras, each verse averaging between 18 and 28 moras. Very likely by the word ♦(vj*lfi;i\ a variation of this metre is intended, as those Sloks in the Granth do not contain the same number of moras. The Sl5k of Mah. I. is scanned by 2 x 5 + 5 + 4 = 28 Kalas, as:

■Lrft H'T3^ ^fWT ■ETT^ II t'R5 IfTTfJT ^^3V^ Jl»TTO II

ijfW ■?? fwtf^ ^'3 II tvr?5 tannw fwr5 ii

mukhi jhuthu | bibhukana | saram || traipfila | tihala bi|caram ]| 14 + 14 =: 28 K.

The whole first Sl5k contains five verses of this kind and consequently 5 x 28:= 140 Kalas.

The Miba( ffXTfff^3^ of Mah. V. are scanned in a different way, as shown by the first Slok, which runs thus:

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