Among the most popular pieces of poems -- often selected
for recitation by children -- is the Śivatāṇḍavastotra, ascribed to Rāvaṇa,
which rhymes its second syllables up to the 14th that is the
last-but-one verse. Its date is not known but could be anterior to the
emergence of Vaiṣṇavism as a strong contender against Ṣaivism which could be
prior to the ninth century CE. But that is uncertain.
Best
DB
Dear Dominic,
As for the use of 2nd-syllable rhyming, I’d refer you to the Stuti-vidyā, a work traditionally ascribed to Samantabhadra, but this must be a different one than the author of the Āpta-mīmāṁsā etc. (see http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10781-014-9270-3), and lived well after 650.
This Jaina work was most probably composed in the South (Karnataka), however, it draws also from North Indian Jaina sources.
The edition:
Pannālāl Jain (ed., Hindi transl.); Jugal Kiśor Mukhtār ‘Yugavīra’ (Introduction): Śrīmat-svāmi-Samantabhadrācārya-viracitā Stuti-vidyā (Jina-śataka) [Samantabhadra-bhāratīkā eka aṅga] śrī-Vasunandy-ācārya-kta saṁskta-ṭīkāse alaṁkta tathā hindīanuvāda se yukta. Cīra-sevā-mandir, Sarasāvā Jilā Sahāranpur 1950.
Best,
Piotr Balcerowicz
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