PRA CRTT POETRY 411 



** The just Kino;, and his kinsmen, relying on ihee for an 

 associate capable of susiainli.'g ihc heaviest burden, are willing 

 to undeitake I lie task of a solemn sacriticc. Even to enemies 

 who court them, the magnaniinous show kindness; as rivers 

 convey to the ocean the rival torents from the mountains. 

 Violence, used against foesby the strong, is at length success- 

 ful ; bui friends, once offended, are not easily reconciled even 

 by compliances. Thou thinkest, that the slaughter of the 

 foe will most gratify the inhabitants of" heaven : but far better 

 is it to present offerings, which are desired by the deities, 

 who devour oblations. What the virtuous offer, under the 

 name of ambrosia, in flaiues, whose tongues are holy prayers, 

 was the spiend d ornament of the ocean churned by the moun- 

 tain JMandara. The promise made by thee to thy father's 

 venerauJe sister, to forgive her son a hinidred offences, should 

 be strictly observed. Let the intellect of a good man be 

 sharp without wounding; let \i.\^ actions be vigor'ous, biit 

 conciliaiory ; let his mind be warm without inflaming: and 

 let !.is word, when he speaks, he rigidly maintained. Before 

 the appointed hour, even thou art not able to destroy the ty- 

 rant, on wliom thyself cor-'ferred that boon ; no more than the 

 sun can prematurely close the day, which he himself erihglit-* 

 ens. 2. 103 — HO. 



V. CanipGund me! re, 



I.vsTAxcEs of compotind metre have been already 

 exhibited under rhe designation of Upajall, consisting 

 pf two kinds of simple metre variously combined : 

 two of these combinations are repealed under the head 

 of half equal metre with the contrasted names q{ Ach- 

 yanaci and Vifarilachyanaci. Other spec;es of metre, 

 belonging to li.is class, are in use arnong eminent poets : 

 particularly the Pushpiiagra, and Aparavactra. In the 

 first, both verses are terminated by* two trochees and a 

 spondee, and begin widi four sho't syllables, one verse 

 interposing a pyrrichius, and the other a dactyl. In the 

 next species, both verses are terminated by three iambics, 

 and begin like rhe preceding with fotir short syllables; 

 but one verse interposes a single short syllable, an4 

 the other a trochee. 



