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which the rrifasure is still more varied : and I may here 

 remark, that the introduction of rhyme into Sanserif 

 verse is not peculiar to this anapaestick metre : Jaya- 

 de'v A has adopted it vviih success in several other sorts 

 of lyrick measure ; and it is frequent in Sanscrit poetry 

 composed in any species of Pracrit metre. 



3. Gitya'kya'. 



Anothei? species of metre regulated by quantity is 

 named Gilydryu. Like the preceding, it is a tetrastich 

 in which each verse cons'ists of sixteen matras or mo- 

 ments ; but all expressed by short syllables. In other 

 words the stanza contains sixty-four syllables distri- 

 buted into four verses. From the mixture of verses of 

 this description, with others consisting exclusively of 

 long syllables, arises another metre distinguished into 

 two sorts according as the first couplet in the stanza 

 consists of short syllables and the second of long; or, 

 conversely, the first long, and the second short *. The 

 Giiynryd may be further varied by making the last syl- 

 lable of each couplet long, and all the rest short ; at 

 the same time reducing both couplets to twenty-nine 

 moments, or the first only to that measure ; and the se- 

 cond to thirty-one : or the first couplet to thirty, while 

 the second contains thirty two -j-. 



4. Pracrit measures. 



The foregoing are all comprehended under the ge- 

 neral designation of Jali : and besides these, which are 



• Tbe mixed metre, in which one couplet of the stanza contains 

 short syllables, and the other long, is termed Sic ha or Chu da : if 

 the first couplet contain the short syllables, it is denominated Jnottsh j 

 but is called Saumr/a, or Aiiavgayicrid a, when the first couplet con- 

 sists of long syllables. 



t This metre, concerning which authorities disagree, is called 

 Chu'dicaox Chi.li.a; or according to the Fiitta Rainacara, Atiru- 

 fhira. 



