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come close together at the end of the canto. Later on in the poem, 

 Persian words may be rather more frequent. 



As for my translation, I have done my best to keep close to the 

 original ; but a poem, like the Piithimj-rayasa, intended expressly for 

 recitation, and composed in a ballad metre with many words thrown 

 in more for sound than sense, scarcely admits of literal rendering. 

 The narrative too is occasionally very abrupt in its transitions, 

 briefly alluding to events which require to be known in detail before 

 the ambiguous allusions can be interpreted ; while the language is of 

 a most archaic type and the text exceedingly corrupt. The necessary 

 result of all these circumstances is, that my rendering of several 

 passages is little more than conjectural. 



The few lines to which I have been unable to attach any definite 

 meaning, and which I have therefore reproduced in their original form, 

 are probably more or less corrupt. I hope some scholar will exercise 

 his ingenuity, and favour the Society with a translation both of them 

 and of the longer continuous passage with which I now conclude this 

 paper. 



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