Guest guest Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 INDOLOGY, peekayar <peekayar> wrote: While reading the Uttara Kanda I noticed a preponderance of the letter ha. Therefore I gathered some statistical data from the first 1000 verses of Bala Kanda, Ayodhya Kanda, Sundara Kanda and Uttara Kanda. ---------------- I downloaded the uttara kanda and the yuddha kanda from John Smiths website and loaded them into a programmers editor I use called Textpad. I collected all the lines ending in "ha" and sorted them on the word preceeding the line final "ha". In the uttara kanda the word ha occurs at the end of a pada about 70 times. Of these 70 times the majority (about 60 out of the 70) occur after a 3rd person singular verb in the perfect tense (presumably for metrical purposes). I.e uvAca ha , dadarza ha , jagAda ha etc. The most common verb it followed at the end of a pada by far was uvAca. ha never followed uvAca except at the end of a pada. In the yudha kanda the usage of ha at pada end was also mainly after a verb in the perfect tense. Regards, Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 INDOLOGY, peekayar <peekayar> wrote: > What is the frequency of occurance of ha in yuddha kanda compared to 70 in uttara kanda? ------------------- I only checked for ha at line end (i.e. at end of pada b or d). ha occurs 56 times at line end (out of about 8980 lines) in the Yuddha kanda compared to 71 times in about 5440 lines in the Uttara Kanda. Regards, Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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