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However, the epick poem of Ma'g'ha, which 

 will be mentioned more particularly under the next 

 head, contains a specimen of similar alliterarion and 

 rhyme ; the last fourteen scanzas of tlje sixth canto, 

 (descriptive of the seasons,) being constructed with like 

 terminations to each half of the stanza. Instances willl 

 also be cited from Bha'ra vi's poem hereafter noticed. 



The following example of a species of the A'rya me- 

 tre is taken from the preface of the Nulodaya. 



A'rya g'lti (8 feet). 



[See Plate A.. Fig. 2.] 



" The king celebrated under the name of Ram a *, exists, 

 who is conversant with the supreme ways of moral conduct ; 

 in whose family, exempt from calamity and enriched with the 

 gems of the earth, dependants flourish." 1. 3. 



The next is taken from Damayanti's lamentation 

 on finding herself deserted by her husband Nala. It 

 is in the same species of metre. 



26. Tatra, pade vyalinam, 



at'ha vibhramam vane cha devya, 'linam 



tanu-vrinde vyahnam 

 tatiti dad'hane, taya'spade vyalinam. 



27. Vega-bala 'pasitaya, 

 Venya, Bhaimi yuta lalapii 'sitaya. 



"Nripa! sa-calapa 'sitaya 

 hatvva. 'rin, bandhavan cila 'pisi taya. 



• 28. Sa cat' ham maiia-vanauam, 

 Nyayavid ! acharasi sevyamana-vananam, 



D'hrita-sima navanam, 

 DAranam tyagam, anupama ! 'navananam. 



* Rama raja, by whose command the poem was composed. So 

 the commentators remark : but it remains uncertain who he wns, or 

 where he reigned. 



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