FRa'cRiT tOETRY. 3gf 



scrii verse is generally scaned by these last mentioned 

 feet ; with the addition cf either a dissyllable or a mono- 

 syllable at the close of the verse, if necessary. This 

 may be rendered plain by an example taken from the 

 Greek and Lathi prosody. 



Scanned in the Indian manner, a phaleucian verse, 

 instead of a spondee, a dactyl and three trochees, would 

 be measured by a molossus, an anapasst, an amphibra- 

 chys and a trochee ; expressed thus, m. s. j. g. 1. A 

 Sapphic verse would be similarly measured by a cretic, 

 an antibacchius, an amphibrachys and a trochee; 

 written r. t. j. g. 1. 



To avoid the two frequent use of uncommon terms, 

 I shall, in describing the different sorts of Sanscrit 

 metre, occasionally adopt a mode of stating the mea- 

 sure more consonant to the Greek and Latin prosody, 

 in which the iambic, trochee, and spondee, dactyl, ana- 

 paest, and tribrachys arc the only feet of two or three 

 syllables which are commonly employed. 



In Prdcrit prosody the variety of feet is much greater: 

 verses being scanned by feel of different lengths from 

 two mcifrds, (two short syllables or one long) to three, 

 four, five and even six nuUrds or instants. These vari- 

 ous descriptions of feet have been classed, and denomi- 

 nated, by the writers on this branch ot prosody. 



The verse, according to the Sanscrit system of pro- 

 sody, is the component part of a couplet, stanza or 

 strophe, commonly named a S'loca, although this term 

 be sometimes restricted to one sort of metre, as will be 

 subsequently shown on the authority of Ca'lidasa. 



