356 Birth of Uma— [Juy, 
28. 
As lamps by their radiant crest of sharp flame,— 
As heaven’s path by Ganges, of far-flowing fame,— 
As scholars by th’ eloquent charm of pure speech,— 
Their last and best forms of accomplishment reach ; 
So he by this daughter, the crown of his race, 
Was cleans’d from all stain and adorn’d with all grace. 
a ee ee id 
“‘ How shouldst thou, O bee, turning to the desire of new honey, and occupied 
too entirely with the lotus’s sweetness, forget the mango blossom which thou hast 
so often kissed ?”” A comparison with this text will shew that M. de Chézy’s ver- 
sion of this, ‘“‘ Se pourrait-il, abeille volage, &c.”’ in p. 102 of his very splendid 
and valuable edition of the “‘ Sacountala’””—though somewhat paraphrastic, has 
greatly the advantage in point of correctness over that of Sir W. Jones—“ Sweet 
bee, &c.’’ (Works, ix. p. 464,) which is marred by the misplacing of a very signi- 
ficant clause. But M. de Chézy is utterly mistaken as to the metrical harmony of 
this exquisite stanza, which he supposes (in p. 227 of the notes) to be in the A’ry4 
measure of the kind called Géti, (but Udgdthd in the Pingala,)—in order to which 
he is obliged to suppose a new license, inadmissible in that metre,—and has also, 
in this imagination, allowed a very faulty reading fagafcafa for faafcata 
in the fourth line. The uniform succession of long and short syllables in these 
lines is sufficient to shew that they are not A’rya lines of any kind. They 
are of a very common metre of alternate 10 and 11 syllables, called Apara- 
1 and 3. Proceleusm. Anapest. Dijamb. 
2 and 4. Proceleusm. Choriamb. Dijamb. 
St. 28. Of far flowing fame.—lIn the original fara i.e. ** the triple-pathed,”’ 
or “‘ whose course is through the three worlds.’’ See Amara Cosha, II. § 3. sl. 31, 
(p. 69. ed. Colebrooke). The question is put and answered in the Ramayana, I. 
37. St. 3. 
waktram ; the distribution of which is, 
at WaT <gar aa WaIS ATTA 
fay STAG Waw Hala: A PATA I 
‘* Why does Ganges, Canes ofthe worlds, flow in three courses—and by what 
works, O thou who knowest righteousness, is she attended, (i. e. for what is the 
accompaniment of her purifying water required,) throughout the three worlds 2” 
No other topic of this remarkable triple comparison requires illustration, except 
that by qeqrcaeqifacy in the third, is meant the utmost perfection and correct- 
ness of Sanscrit speech. 
[To be concluded in the September number. ] 
