ON SANSCRIT ALLITERATION. 



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Compare with the preceding figure the stanza, which in its regular 

 form reads thus — 



O excellent for ivisdom, your assembly shines distinguished for taste, full of splendour, high 

 in spirit, expert at repartee, and divinely resplendent. 



7. — The admits the stanzas to be thrown into the form of a 



sword, whence the name. The first stanza forms the blade, and the second 

 the remaining part of the sword. Read first round the blade, and then 

 the right, left, and central parts of the hilt. 



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The following is the regular form of these words with their rendering 



May the great Umd, ivho is continually praised in poiverful strains by Siva, Indra, Rama, 

 and Ganesha; ivho is able to take away their pain; who is the mother of the devout, the 



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