424 ON- SANSCRIT AND 



who departed from heaven, he dwelt happily in the peaceful 

 ci^y o^ i-'astindpura auspiciously inhabited by Dhritara'- 

 SHTRA." 1.50. and 51. 



To proceed with the subject. In general the dif- 

 ferent sorts of verse, which are contained in, the sub- 

 joined synoptical table of uniTonn metre, are used 

 singly, and the stanza is consequently regular : but 

 some of the species, differing little from each other, 

 are m ermixed. Thus the Imlravojra, measured by a 

 dacfvl between two epitrites (3d and 2d), and the 

 Upendravajra^ which begins with a diiambus, maybe 

 mixf d in the same stanza. This sortof rnixt metre an 

 example of 'A'li'ch has been just r;ow exhibited) is de- 

 nominated Vpajdli : it of course admits fourteen vari- 

 ations ;* or, vuth the regular stanzas, sixteen. The 

 relief which it affords from the rigorous laws of the 

 uniform stanza, render it a favourite metre with the best 

 poets. It has been much employed by Ca'lida'sa, 

 in whose j oem on the birrh and marriage of Pa'^vati", 

 three out of the seven cantos, which compose it, are in 

 this metre ; as aie eight out of nineteen in his heroick 

 poem on the glory of the race of Rxghu. 



The last mentioned work, which is entitled Raghu-^ 

 i'(7«/^, and is among the most admired composiiions 

 in the .Sanscrit tongue, contains the history of Ra'ma 

 and of his j-^rcdecessors and successors from Dili'pa 

 father of Kaghu, to Agnivern'a a slothful prince 

 who was succeeded by his widow and posthumous son. 

 The first eight cantos relate chiefly to Kaghu, with 

 whose history that of his fither Djli'i'A and of his 

 son Aja, i< nearly conr-ected. The next eight concern 

 Ra'ma, whose story is in like manner intimately con- 



• y iCHiTP.AviRYA was husband of Pa'kdu's mother. 



+ Fb y have dis'inci n;imes, which are enumerated in the 

 Ch' >• Tyiil'Tn'irnn'da, cited by the commentator on the FntaRetnucara: 

 as Mani^rablid Cdniiinati, &c. 



