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metre (with the exception of the exceptionally used more than one
1.
12.5.1. Amitagati's style is ascetic, caustic, severe and often even ruthless; many of his verses, of which each is an entity in itself, is a diatribe against those who do not follow Jaina precepts and is couched often in an unpleasant language. Particularly bitter, unrelenting and even repulsive are his observations about women.
12.5.2. Offensive, if not revolting, is, for instance, Amitagati's description of women in 6.22 reading:
ON SOME NONCANONICAL SUBHĀȘITA
संज्ञातोऽपीन्द्रजालं यदुत युवतयो मोहयित्वा मनुष्या
नानाशास्त्रेषु दक्षानपि गुणकलितं दर्शयन्त्यात्मरूपम् । शुक्रासृग्यातनाक्त ततकुथितमलैः प्रक्षरत्स्रोत्रगर्ते : सर्वैरुच्चारपुञ्ज कुथितजठरभृच्छिद्रित यद्वदत्र ||
(1)
J. HERTEL in huis Ueber das Amitagati... (op. cit. p. 61, fn. 5) (pp. 108-9) pointed out the different metres used in SRŚ., but his list is sometimes not correct (e.g. in chapters 9 and 32). Therefore, the following list of metres used by Amitagati in SRS. is given below:
8 Syllables to a pada.
(6)
(7)
last verse or verses) and only metre in the same chapter.'
(8)
(2)
(3)
(4) svagata: chapter 24
(5) upajati (indravajrā and upendravajrā): Chapters 8 (with the exception of verses 12, 23, 24 and 27). 9 (with the exception of verses 13, 14 and 23), 21 (with the exception of verses 13, 14 and 24)
indravajra: 8.12, 8.23, 8.27, 21.14, 21.24 upendravajra: 8.24, 21.13
12 syllables to a pada:
Vamsastha chapters 7; 32.1 to 28 and 29.27
M.M.-9
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śloka: chapters 22, 31 (verses 1-116) and āsis verse 42 11 syllables to a pada: dodhaka: chapter 23
rathoddhata: chapter 25
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Number
of verses
139
26
21
25
852
78
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