176 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1910 



_ adopts the 



old and even better readings. Still these readings have to be 

 adopted, because they make the passage conform to the rules 

 of metre, although no commentator or scholar, eastern or wes- 

 tern, seems to have had the faintest idea of the fact. 



be a variety of ^?3», having two *r 



ganas at the beginning of each foot of the stanza and an un- 

 limited number of ?: ganas in each foot as is the case with the 

 Qyamaladandaka, a short poem attributed to Kalidasa by popu- 

 lar belief. If, however, there is still any doubt about its being 



at all, that can be removed by the expressions involving 



rords ^T*?, fWTT, ^*, tff^?, which are designations for 

 different kinds of ^5^* consisting all of first two «r ganas and 



then consisting respectively of 13, 22, 9, and 18 T ganas in each 

 quarter ! Further, we find the name ^S£ ( = ^*?l0 repeated 



in the words <33r*i? and sffe^ f ! 



For such kinds of irregular <?*?* the learned editors of the 



Kavyamala, Pandit Durgaprasad and Mr. K. P. Parab (see 

 ^T^WT^fT *i^F^ I, p- 8, foot-note) give the name of *T?*?Tfnr#t^rrarc: 

 which is defined in •nTHnWf s ifan" on €W*WP*T, ch. Ill, § 114 y 



^Tf^TWT^^T^T* (p. 57, Nirnayasagar Edition) of ewcprr*^." 



But it seems that this iffmrair^^t^rniPC consists purely 

 of Tip* and has no iurcr at the beginning, as will be seen 

 from the definition line which is in verse as well as from 



the illustration of the Vtw t ft 4Nh *) I «*; in w«^W?^, Vol. II, 

 p. 480, under the general section on W3£r . But it is enough to 

 say here that it is shown to be a variety of the <a^^r, an irregular 

 variety like that of urTtf^rT^S^r attributed to Kalidasa in 



WTfriPfr or iht*?W, which is irregul 



as 



regards the number of feet which are five ins 



every stanza of the Sanskrit poetry consists 



feet only. In fact, we may call such irregular 



pieces of ' metric prose,' if I may be allowed to use such an 



^f^ 



expression 



ture are 



^tn metre we find in litera- 



(1) *^%?re? frofn • etc. in the fifth Act of *jr^raWn**r ; 



(2) *t*j ^rrfif ^$nt° which forms the igm^i<<w<* ascribed to 



wf%*re (pp. 8—11 qriv?rw *^r I) ; 



(3) ^re gnj f^sr^t wt» (pp. 83-85 of ftqrmft««Hi{ famrorpjrT) 



called fl^T^qrar by the learned editors ; 

 (4) *rq *W *Ut^tn (p. 103 ^^Tif qsm - q&wmi I 





