pka'ceit poetry. 42f 



husband swallows poison : what resource is there, alas, for 

 me ?" 



An instance of the same measure used in the Mara- 

 hat't'a (Maharashtra) languai^^e is quoted by the com- 

 mentator on the yrittd-retna'cara. It appears, how- 

 e\er, from the rhymes, that the verse is there subdi- 

 vided by a pause after the 5th syllable. 



The variety of the Upaja't'i metre is increased by 

 the further mix«^ure of two sorts of iambic measure' 

 nai ed Vans' us t' ha and Indravam'd . The first is com- 

 posed of a choriaiabus between two diiambi ; in the 

 second, the first dissyllable is a spondee instead of an 

 iambic. Instances of this mixt metre occur in Va'l- 

 Mici's Ra'inyana^* in the Svi-hhagavata Fiircina^ 

 and in a metapijvsical and theological drama entitled 



Praho'd'ha Chandrodaya "^ 



The following example from the drama now men- 

 tioned, exiiibits the combination of those four sorts of 

 metre in a single stanza. 



Vidya-prabodhodaya-janma-bhumir, Varanosi mucti 



pari uiratyaya 

 A tab culochch'heda-vid'him vid'hitsur nivastum atrech*- 



hati nityara eva sab. 



[See Plate B. Fig. 4.") 



*' Vdrdn'asi, the indestructible city of eternal salvation, is 

 the native land of science and intellect : bence, one desirous 

 of observing the precepts by which a continuance of family is 

 cut oiF, fand final beatitude obtained], is solicitous to dwell 

 there continually." 



In a passase of the Sundara Canda, 



t Book 10th. 



X Among the perfons of ihis drama are the paflions and vices 

 (pride, anger, avarice, &c.) widi the virtues, (as pity and patience ;) 

 and other abstract notions ; some of which constitute very strange 

 perfonifications. The author was Criskn'a Pandita. 



