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1 . Ganaclihanchis or metre regulated byfeet (maird* 

 gatid.) 



A'kya' or Ga"t'ha'. 



The metre, named A'ryd, or in Prdcrif, Guhd, from 

 the Scjnscrit' GiW/id, is measured by feet denon.inated 

 gana, or mdtrdgan a^ which are equivalent to two long 

 syllables or to four short : it is described as a couplet, 

 in which the first verse contains seven and half feet,; 

 and the sixth foot must consist of a long syllable be- 

 tween two short, or else of four short; while the odd 

 feet (1st, 3d, 5ih, and 7th) must never be amphibra- 

 chys.* In the second verse of the couplet, the sixth 

 foot (for here too it retains that name) consists of a 

 single short syllable. Consequenrlv the proportion of 

 syllabick instants in the long and short verses is thirty 

 to twenty-seven. -j' The same metre has, with some 

 propriety, been described as a stanza of four verses ::j; 

 for it is subdivided by its pauses into four pddas, wliich 

 have the usual privilege of going to the last syllable, 

 whether naturally long or short, the length required by 

 the metre. The cause is commonly restricted to the 

 close of the third foot; and the measure is in this case 

 denominated Patchy a: but, if the pause be placed 

 otherwise in either verse, or in both of them, the metre 

 is named Vipuld. 



_ A particular sort of this measure, deduced from 

 either species above described, is called Chapald ; and 

 the laws of its construction require, that the second and 

 fourth feet should be ami)hibnichys ; and that the first 

 foot should be either a spondee or an anapaest ; and 



* If the rule be violated, the metre is named Gurvini ; bnt this ii5 

 reprobated by writers on prosody. 



t As Res. Vol. II. p. 3go. 

 X VriUa muetavali. 



