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sentence. Rhyme, however, is not required, either 

 in the terminating consonants or vowels, though it 

 frequently occurs from the structure of the language. 

 The general form of this measure seems to be four 

 long syllables, each of which, however, is conversible 

 into two short ones, or may have a short one inter- 

 polated before or after it. Thus, the passage adduced 

 by Captain Towers, from the Manii Saingwa% as a 

 specimen of his system of orthography in his " Obser- 

 vatiofis on the Alphabetical System of the Language of 

 Awa and Rachain^' may be arranged. 



Maha sdmata, Tain-kha hnaik ch'haun, 



Man gri chak-kriwall, Khre so tachhe, 



San'khra praiu brain, Shai'ch pi so T'hdm-ma-sit, 



Tain clain p? ii., Cha ga do go, &c. 



Sometimes, however, more complicated measures 

 are employed in Rukheng composition, in imitation 

 of those which occur in Bali. Many interesting 

 works are represented to exist in the Rukheng lan- 

 guage, but the greater part of them are translations 

 from the Bali. The " Tillawar Cherita,'' is said to 

 contain the historical traditions of the Rukheng 

 nation : the " Kariky' composed by Anguli-Mala, 

 and the " Tliamma-sat or Dherma Sastra, contain 

 their system of religious observances, and code of 

 laws. The following is a list of the most popular 

 Rukheng compositions : 



1. Raja-buntza, 9, Sada-sliyei'ch-chaung, 



2. Raja-wongtza, 10. Malio, 



3. T6mi, 11. Uni-nga-gyaing, 



4. Nemi, 12. So'p-soung-gyeng, 



5. Janaka, 13. Bhuridat-kapya, 



6. Suwanna-asyang, l4. Bo-thi-hmain-dei, 



7. Bhuridat, 15. We-faing-dara, 

 p. Txaingdi-guugma 16. Sainj-we-ra, 



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