pra'crit poetry. 431 



disgrace : for kings, ambitious of victory, scruple not the 

 use of stratagem in treating with enemies. Thee, \Yho by 

 force of fate and time art not sunk iil the deep ocean of cala- 

 miiy, dull with dimitiished splendour, and slow lo enterprise, 

 may fortune again attend, as thou risest like the sun with the 

 newborn day, dispelling hostile gloom." 1. 37. — 46. 



To return to the enumeration of analogous sorts of 

 metre. A true spondaic metre, named Vidyunmala, 

 consisting of four spondees, with a pause in the middle 

 of the verse which virtually divides the tetrastich into 

 a stanza of eight, is often mixed, as before observed, 

 with the metre termed Gltyarya^ containing the same 

 quantity in a greater number of syllables. 



Other measures also containing the same quantity, 

 but in a greater number of syllables, occur among the 

 species of uniform metre. The subjoined note* ex- 

 hibits several species, in which>;the verse is divided by 

 the position of the pauses into two parts equal in quan- 

 tity, and some of them equal in number of syllables. 

 Further instances are also stated in the notes, of metre 

 containing the same quantity similarly reducible to 

 equal feet -f^. Some of the species of metre, which con- 

 tain a greater number of syllables, are reducible, in 

 conformity to the position of their pauses, to this class J. 



*RucTnavati or Chavipncamal'i compofed of alternate dactyls and 

 spondees; Matta measured by tliree spondees with four short syl- 

 lables before the.last; Pana-va containine; a spondee and dactyl, and 

 an anapaest and sj)ond£ej BfiTamaravihiAta nieasnred by two soon- 

 dees, four short syllables and an anapsest ; .hdoddhalagata compose4 

 of alternate amphibrachys and anapaest, and several other species ; 

 as Gumma vie hit ra, Manigun'anicara, Cudmila danti^ Laland,ii.c. 



t Dod'haca compoled of three dactyls and a spondee ; Totaca con- 

 taining four anapce.-ts; Prflmf/^W;.?/-^, measured by three anapeestis 

 with an amphibiachys for the second loot ; MJL'i, a species of Chan- 

 dravarlA, and some others. 



X Thus A/(2fiat-/ii'/ combines two simple kinds, the VidyumuaU and 

 Chandravarta.. So Craunchapadu, is composed of two species before- 

 mentioned, the ChampacamaU and Maniguna. 



