Mopgnw [rrarionior TH AGpas, &c. 5G 
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four Adhyaya or chapteray the frat containing twenty-four, ‘the second 
thirty-three, the third forty-one,’ ‘the “fourth ‘twenty-two Chaidas or 
sections. Nearly the wvtiolé'of the’ Siz tam,” is written inthe Gd yatriya 
metre, Anushiup stanzas being sparingly intermixed 5 part of the 18th, 
and the whole of the three concluding Chaitdas of the four th Adhyaya 
have Anushtup and Trishéup stanzas nitermixed’ “Each Chanda consists 
more frequently of four, five or six stanzas, less frequently of seyen 
and éight, which number is seldom exceeded. When the measure 
_changes from the Anushiup to the Gayatriya melte, a short verse OF cieht 
syllables, he that which with the latter closes, is interposed. The three 
-verses of the Gar yatriya ought. to be Anushiup of eight syllables, but it 
isa licence. not. unfrequently. assumed io drop one,. or even. two syllables 
when compound consonants such as dra, bhya, or csha oecur in the 
line, thus reducing the, number. to_ seven, or-six syllables. These 
wemarks are exemplified by the follewing, extracts:—in the original the 
verses are only separated by two short perpendicular lines thus (I), 
I have arranged them after the manner of Huropean verse that the metre 
may be more distinctly. shewn, © | 
Tue first Chatda of the first Ad hyaya of the Pavamdnams consisting 
sais of Gayatréya stanzas :' | 
Sri Gatésdya\namah Harih ‘Om, . 
Oey re midishtayi—bavasyd samddharaya, . ., 
Indrayé pativé siitah, | 
Racshaha. vis wa chacshawir Ab, hiyontimayo hatam, 
_ Driinasiidast tm asiidat, 
O 
