Mopern Imiration or rar Vepas, &e, 47 
rot frequently;: intermixed, The first ithe Anushtubh Vrittam, consisting. 
of a stanza ofofour lines, each ‘containing eight syllables, but generally 
written in two:long lines of sixteen, resembles in this respect, the comes. 
mon Sica, Vrittam, which, also, belongs to the Anush*tup Chhandas ; 
but, though according inoutward. form, they are very different in cons 
‘struction and metre. ‘This I shall proceed particularly to demonstrate, 
for in the latter species of verse, seldom, if ever used in the Védas, all 
the Purdnas, the Bharata, Raémdyana, and other lone poems, are 
chiefly written, and in this ? metre, also, as will be presently shown, the 
whole of the Pseudo-Védas, a few introductory passages and abstracts 
of chapters, which are in prose, excepted, are composed, 
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‘Tue possible variation of the species of verse included under the 
term Anush’tup Ch handas, or of the combination of long and short, in a 
line of eight syllables, is two hundred and fifty-sixs but, as every species 
used, must end ina long syllable, and the last of every verse is, accord 
ing to the rules of prosody, common, this number. is virtuaily reduced 
to one hundred and twenty-eight, The Siéca Vrittam,* as from the 
frequency of its use it is especially denominated, is restricted in the respec- 
tive verses'to certain species of the Anush’twp Chhandas.. The first, 
which is the same in each stanza as the third verse, may take thirty-two 
different species, but many of these are of very unfrequent occurrence 3 
the second, the same as the fourth verse, can iake only ten. The species, 
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* Tue first term, Sléce, signifies @ quuirain in any measure, and Vritiem, verse, but thus come 
pounded. the particular stanza, the rules for which are here stated, 
