| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of this project was to compile a survey of the concrete processes of historical development of metres in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan languages. This was achieved by a thorough reexamination, from philological and linguistic viewpoints, of the mass of verses in Vedic, Epic, classical Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, collected and analyzed by the author over the past 40 years. This investigation elucidated in detail the way Vedic metres, based on repetition of a fixed number of syllables, brought forth rhythmical variations by combination of heavy and light syllables and how, on the one hand, these turned into the Middle Indo-Aryan metres measured by "maatraa" (temporal unit for pronunciation) and, on the other hand, into the classical Sanskrit metres in which all syllables are fixed in number and weight. This study also clarified basic, though ambiguous, concepts such as "syllable”, “light”, “heavy”, “maatraa”, “pause”, etc., which were previously often misunderstood.
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