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The same term (UpfjtJti), as descriptive of mixt 

 metre, has been also applied co the intermixture of two 

 spondaic meas': res named faUo'rmia.ndSali/ii: which 

 are very s'milar, ti;e first having an anapx-sr, the other 

 acretic, between a dispondeus and ad epirrirus, with a 

 pause at the fourth syllable. Analogous to the first of 

 these o.xtthtB.ai'koddhala, and Sivagata measured by 

 an anapae.-t preceded by two trochees, and followed in 

 the one by two ian bics ; and in the other by an ionic. 

 These and t^e preceding are ti et'-es in very co s.mon 

 use with the best poets : and instances of them, will 

 occur in subsequent extracts chosen -for the sake of 

 other measures with which they are joined. 



The several sorts o'' metre above described are, like 

 the two last,also em.pioved separatelv : forinstan' c the 

 first cantos of the AVz/i/i^ciVm-^^ of S'ri'harnha, and 

 Cirdtdrjitmya of Bha'bavi, as well as that of the epick 

 poem of Ma'gha, are in the iambic measure called 

 Van^'asi'Jia ; which recurs again in other paits of the 

 same proems : especially in the Cirdta, of which four 

 books out of eighteen are in this measuLe. 



The first of the works just now mentioned is a poem 

 in twenty-two cantos on the marriage of Nala king of 

 KnhacCha and Damayanti dau^^hter of Bhima king 

 of Vidtrbha. It is a favourite poern on a favourite sub- 

 ject : and though confeseedly not free from faults, is by 

 many esteemed the most beautiful composition in the 

 iSiXWJm/ language. The marriage of Nala and Da- 

 mayantI, his loss of his kingdom by gaming, through 

 the fraudulent devices of Call disguised in the human, 

 form, his desertion of his wife and his transformation, 

 her distresses, her discovery of his v;ife and his trans- 

 formation, her distresses, her discovery of him, and his 

 restoration to his proper foriu and to his throne, are re- 

 lated in another poem already noticed under the title of 

 NaUdaya : their adventures likewise constitute an 



