^S'ir ON SANSCKIT AND 



All tijese varieties of metre have a great analogy to 

 the Mdlrasamaca and other spcxies before described, 

 which s inilarly contain the quantity of l6 short sylla- 

 bles or 8 long ; reducible to four equal feet. 



Among the kinds of metre described at the foot of 

 the preceding paragraphs, the Dodhaca^ Totaca and 

 ■Praviitacshara are the most commoi). A stanza in the 

 anapjBstic measure nam.ed Pramilacshara, in which each 

 verse exhibits alliteration at its close, has been already 

 quoted from the hith canto of the Ciratajuma of Bh a' ■ 

 RAVI. 11 he specimen of anap£e>tic measure Totaca^ 

 which will be here cited from the close of the Nahdaya, 

 is a further instance of alliteration introduced into eve- 

 ry stanza of this singular poem. 



Totaca. 



Arl-sanhatir asya vaneshu s'ucham padam apadam apad 



a ma' pad a ma. 

 Suc'hadan cha yat'haivd janaya Harim yatam ayatamaya 



tama yata Ma. 



[See Plate B. Fig. 7.] 



*' The luckless and despondent croud of his foes fonnd in 

 the forests a calamitous place of sorrow; and prosperity was ,* 

 constant to him, who gave happiness to a sincerely affection- 

 ate people^ as she clings to Hari, who blesses the guileless." 

 4. 46. 



It has been before said, that, in several sorts of 

 metre, the pauses would justify the division of the 

 stanza into a greater number of verses than four, and in- 

 stances have been shown, where either the number of 

 syllables, or the quantity, would be the same in each 

 verse of a stanza of eight, twelve, or even sixre(>n sliort 

 verses. In the following species of metre, the verses 

 of the stanza, subdivided according to the pauses, are 

 unequal. 



