[Y-Indology] laghu eighth syllable in Vasantatilaka

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Quoting deshpandem <mmdesh:

 

> You are right. The commentary gives an impression of a reading with

> the 8th syllable as being laghu. However, either the editor did not

> read the mss correctly, nataa for aanataa, or the commentator is

> simply mistaken. The definition of (ta-bha-ja-ja-ga-ga) and the

> practice of Vasantatilaka does not allow the 8th syllable being laghu.

 

Thank you, this is very interesting to me. So aanata is likely to have been

Manirama's real text, what he actually wrote, possibly mistaken by the setter

of this text? But I think the fact must be that Manirama is mistaken, as you

suggest, because he did not ruciraatanu into rucira atanu, either, in the other

verse, apparently. Is Manirama an extraordinarily inattentive commentator, at

least where metre is concerned, or is this kind of 'sloppiness' not too

uncommon amongst commentators?

 

Phillip