ON SANSCRIT ALLITERATION. 



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If in this order, the alliteration occurs at the beginning of each pdda, 

 it is called W«?T ; if at the end tr^. 



3. — The third order is called '^■5iq?r^^^, and is a union or mixture 

 of the two preceding orders, having the same letters repeated both together 

 and apart. The alliteration may consist of different letters, as in the 

 first order ; or of the same letters, as in the second : and thus two genera are 

 produced. 



In the first genus, which consists of different letters repeated both toge- 

 ther and apart, there are three species, as when the first pdda agrees 

 with the second, and the third with the fourth ; or the first with the third, 

 and the second with the fourth ; or the first with the fourth, and the second 

 with the third : as ~ 



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What woman can hear to see the rainy season, when the stars are hid by clouds, when the 

 loud thunder resounds, and the clouds are black as death? 



In the second genus there are two species, as when the same letters 

 are repeated both together and apart, in two or in four pddas : as 



We shall die by the night lengthened into nine hours, which though I have passed, still it is 

 not gone. 



4. — The fourth order is called ^"5^^ or ^r'Wt- this the last letters 

 of one pdda correspond with the beginning of the next : as 



nJ s» .3 



^^cTT^^f ^ftfT 'glTri ii'^c^Tf^^fH^rfT II 



The bewilderment of the Rdkshases wandering in all directions was manifest, and by their 

 great leader, when routed, many unworthy deeds toere done. 



