﻿390 A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ESSAY 



limes, or syllabic moments, in the four divisions of 

 which every stanza consists. By numbering those mo- 

 ments and fixing their proportion, I was enabled to re- 

 store the text of Varaha, with the perfect assent of the 

 learned Brahmen who attends me ; and, with his as- 

 sistance, I also corrected the comment, written by 

 Bhattotpala, who, it seems, was a son of the author, 

 together with three curious passages, which are cited 

 in it. Another Pandit afterwards brought me a copy 

 of the whole original work, which confirmed my con- 

 jectural emendations, except in two immaterial sylla- 

 bles, and except that the first of the six couplets in 

 the text is quoted in the commentary from a different 

 work, entitled P anchasiddhantica y five of them were 

 composed by Varaha himself; and the third chapter 

 of his treatise begins with them. 



Before I produce the original verses, it may be use- 

 ful to give you an idea of the Arya measure ; which 

 will appear more distinctly in Latin than in any mo- 

 dern language of Europe : 



Tigridas,apros,t.hoas, tyrannos,pessimamonstra,venemur: 

 Dichinnulus, die lepus male quid egerint graminivori. 



The couplet might be so arranged as to begin and end 

 with the cadence of an hexameter and pentameter, six 

 moments being interposed in the middle of the long, 

 and seven in that of the short hemistich : 



Thoas, aprd?, tigridas nos venemur, pejoresque tyrannos : 

 Die tibi cerva, lepus tib'i die male quid egerit herbivorus. 



Since the Arya measure, however, may be almost in- 

 finitely varied, the couplet would have a form com- 

 pletely Roman, if the proportion of syallabic instants^ 



