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the fifth, a dactyl or a spondee. The first verse of the 

 couplet, the second or both, may be constructed ac- 

 cording to these rigid rules : hence three varieties of 

 this sort of metre. 



The regular A'ryd consists of alternate long and 

 short verses : but, if the short verse precede the long 

 one, the metre is called Utigit'i. If the couplet consist 

 of two long verses, it is named Gili ; or of two short 

 verses, Upagiti. Another sort of this metre is named 

 A'ryd gitl: it is constructed by completing the eighth 

 foot of the regular A'ryd *. 



This measure admits therefore of eighty principal 

 variations ; deducible from the nine sorts abovemen- 

 tioned : for the pause may be placed at the close of 

 the third foot in either verse of each couplet, in both, 

 or in neither ; and either verse, both, or neither, 

 may be constructed according to the strict rules of 

 the Chapald measure ; and the verse may consist of 

 seven and a half, or of eight feet ; and ma)' be ar- 

 ranged in couplets consisting of verses alternately long 

 and short, or alternately short and long, or else uni- 

 formly long, or uniformly sliort. 



The A'ryd metre is very frequently employed by 

 Indian poets ; but works of great length in this mea- 

 sure are not common : it is oftener intermixed with 

 verses of other kinds, though instances do occur of its 

 exclusive use : thus the first and fourth cantos, and most 

 part of the 2d and 3d, in the poem entitled Naloclaya, 

 and the entire work of Go'verd'hana 'I-, are in the 

 A'ryd metre. And so is the brief text of the Sdnchya 



* It may be varied by alternating a long and a short verse, or a 

 ■•hcrt and a long one, or by making i^oth verses long. 



f Consisting of seven hundred (or with the introduction y5S>) 

 &t.inzas of miscellaneous poetry ; and entitled from the number of 

 stanzas Sabta sail. 



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