PRA CRIT POETRY. 445. 



Examples of these extravaoantly Ions verses are 

 to be found in the works of the poet Va'na, It is 

 unnecessary to Insert any specimen of lliera in this 

 place ; as an example will occur in a subcquent quota- 

 tion from Bhavabhuti's drama. 



That class of metre which is termed half equal, be- 

 cause the alternate verses arc alike, comprises various 

 sorts, which appear to be compou.ided of two simple 

 kinds with an appropriate number of syllables of a de- 

 terminate quantity. 



Another class, in which every verse of the stanza 

 is different, appear more complex. But, here also, the 

 quantity as well as the number of syllables being regu- 

 lated, the stanza is in fact composed of four kinds of 

 uniform metre. 



The most common metre of this class is that called 

 Udgalu. Here the number of syllables in each verse, 

 as well as tlieir quantity differs; the first verse com- 

 prising an anapaest, iambick, tribrachys, and trochee ; 

 the second a tribrachys and anapaest with two iambics; 

 tlie third, a trochee, tribrachys, and two anapaests*; 

 and the fourth, an anapaest, iambick, and pyrrichius, 

 with three iambicks. 



The 12th canto of the Ciralarjuniya is in this me- 

 tre ; and so is the 15th canto of Ma'gha's epick poem. 

 It begins thus : 



[See Plate D. Fig. 2.] 



** But the king of the Chedis was impatient of the honours, 

 which the son of Pdnrlu commanded to be shown in th'i'it as- 



* Or the third verse may consist of a trochee and dactyl, with two 

 anapfcats; or <.f ivvotroch(eN, with two anan;?sts: and the metre is 

 denominated, in the firs: \n.:Uiicc Sau/ab/Mca ; in the second, La- 

 liia. 



