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Chapter 18
Words, letters and Uvaca (said) in the Eighteenth Chapter
- In the chapter in 'Athastadaso'dhysyah, there are three words, in 'Arjuna Uvaca' etc., there are eight words, in verses, there are nine hundred and eighty-nine words and there are thirteen concluding words. Thus the total number of the words, is one thousand and thirteen.
- In this chapter in 'Athasradaso'dhyayah' there are seven letters, in 'Arjuna Uvaca' etc., there are twenty-five letters, in verses there are two thousand, four hundred and ninety-six letters and there are forty-eight concluding letters. Thus the total number of the letters, is two thousand, five hundred and seventy-six. Each of the verses in this chapter, consists of thirty-two letters.
- In this chapter the term 'Uvaca' (said) has been used four times—'Arjuna Uvaca' twice, Sribhagavanuvaca' once and 'Sanjaya Uvaca' once.
Metres Used in the Eighteenth Chapter
Out of the seventy-eight verses, of this chapter, in the first quarters of the twelfth, forty-sixth and fifty-second, verses 'magana' being used there, is 'ma-viputa' metre; in the fast quarter of the twenty-third, thirty-second, thirty-seventh, forty-first, forty-fifth, fifty-sixth and seventieth verses 'na-gang' being used there, is 'na-viputa' metre; in the first quarter of the thirty-third, thirty-sixth, forty-seventh and seventy-fifth verses 'bha-gana' being used there, is 'bha-vipula' metre; in the'third quarter of the thirteenth verse 'ma-gana' being used there is 'ma-viputa' metre; in the third quarter of the twenty-sixth verse 'ra-gana' being used there is 'ra-viputa' metre; in the third quarter of the thirty-eighth and sixty-fourth verses 'na-gang' being used there is 'na-vipula' metre; in the first quarter of the forty-ninth verse 'ma-gang' being used there is 'ma-vipula' metre, while in the third quarter 'bha-gana' being used there is 'bha-vipula' metre. The remaining fifty-nine verses have the characteristics of right 'pathyavaktra' Anustup metre.
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