418 ON SANSCRIT AND 



The Chatushfddlcd (Pr. Chaiipa'ia or Chaupdi) is a 

 stanza of sixteen verses distributed into four tetrastichs, 

 in which each verse contains 30 moments {scanned se- 

 ven times 4-'2), and terminated by a long syllable. 

 This measure is of very frequent use in the poetry of 

 the modern languages. The Ramayana of Tulas'i 

 da'sa in seven cantos, a poem held m great estima- 

 tion ay Hindus oi the middle tribes, is composed chiefly 

 in a similar metre under the same name (Chaupai) and 

 containirig the same number of verses ( 1 (5) in the stanza. 

 It aUerr»ares with the Doha ; and very rarely gives place 

 in that poem to any other metre. 



In this metre the stanza contains the greatest num- 

 ber of verses of any admitted into Frdcrit prosody. 

 The other measures regulated by quantity are tetra- 

 stichs, except the GhalWa and certain other couplets, 

 noticed ar the foot of the page* ; some of which might 

 have been ranked with more propriety under the next 

 head of uniform metre. 



One other measure whicli is placed in this class, but 

 which belongs rather to another, remains to be noticed. 

 It is an uregular stanza of four verses containing alter- 

 nately 17 and 18 syllables with no regulation of their 

 length or of r.'.e quantity of the verse or stanza. It is 

 termcrd Gand'ha^ or in Pracr'it Garni' hdifa. 



Th e rest of the Prdcrit metres may be sought' in the 

 syn iptica) tables subjoined to this essay. 



* The Ghatti and Ghaitdnanda, consisting of two verses of 31 

 m trus each. In the iirst spccits rhe pauses arc after tbe 10th and 

 I8th .vii^r./f; in thi^ other a'ter the 11th and 18th. There is also 

 as'ight (iiK^renrein thedistributioo oi the f.-et (7 ti'ne.s4 -f 3 short; 

 andVJ-}-3 li;) e., j -}- 5 -f-O-f 3 -f 3 short.) The Divlpadicd has 

 in -:c; verse 28 ma'tia'~ (6-j-- fivt' times 4-{- 1 iong.) The 5/<r7:a 

 c-int iiai.ior ibe like number, the C'havjd with 4 1 ma trds to theverse^ 

 a li the Laid with A5, are couplets ; but the feel are stiictly regu- 

 lated. 



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