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Literary and Performing Arts
A reference to carcari dhvani is found also in Ratnāvali of Sriharsa. All this would show that (I) carcari is not the name of any one particular metre; (2) that it could be presented to the accompaniment of either a Sanskrit (though this was very rare) or (more generally) a Prākrit stanza, or sometimes even in the absence of any particular stanza; (3) that the recitation of a common song or any particular stanza did not form any essential part of a carcari: and (4) that its main attraction lay in its dance and instrumental music which accompanied it. References to carcari in older literature confirm these conclusions'.
APPENDIX 1. Kuvalayamālā $ p. 4, 25-5, 4.
जहा तेण केवलिणा अरण्ण पविसिऊण पंच चोर-सयाइ रास-णच्चण-च्छलेण महामोह-गह-गहियाई अक्खिविऊण इमाए चच्चरीए संबोहियाइ । अवि य -
सबुज्ज्ञह किं ण बुज्झह, एत्तिए वि मा किंचि मुज्झह ।
कीरउ जं करियव्वयं, पुण ढुक्कइ त मरियव्वयं ॥ इति धुवय । कसिण-कमल-दल-लोयण-चल-रेहतओ पीण-पिहुल-थण-कडियल-भार-किलतओ। ताल-चलिर-वलयावलि-कलयल-सद्दओ रासयम्मि जइ लभइ जुवई-सत्थओ ।। सबुज्झह ० असुइ-मुत्त-मल-रुहिर पवाह-विरूवय । वत-पित्त-दुग्ग धि-सहाव-विलीणय 29 । मेय-मज्ज-वस-फोप्फस-हड्ड-कर कयं चम्म-मेत्त-पच्छायण-जुवई-सस्थय ।। सबुज्ज्ञह. कमल-चंद-णीलुप्पल-कति-समाणय मूढएहि उवमिज्जइ जुवई-अंगय' । थोवय पि भण कत्थइ जइ रमणिज्जय असुइय तु सव्व चिय इय पच्चक्खयं ।। सबुज्झह. जाणिऊण एय चिय एत्थ असारए असुइ-मेत्त-रमणूसव-कय-वावारए ।
