Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c6.18

v1.c6.18

But this does not exhaust all our textual difficulties. Independent prose-passages also survive, in the midst of kārikās, in chs. xvii, xxviii, xxix, xxxi and xxxiv, which, forming an integral part of the text, cannot be taken as mere vṛtti, but which resemble, in some respects, the prose smṛti-fragments or, more closely, the prose-fragments in the recently published Bhela-saṃhitā. Again, the anubaddha or anuvamśya ślokas, referred to above, correspond to the parikara- or saṃgraha-ślokas in later writings, and certainly indicate the probability of earlier speculations on the subject. These verses are generally taken from two distinct sources, for some of them are in āryā while others are in anuṣṭup metre.