ON SANSCRIT ALLITERATION. 



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downwards, upwards, back again to the centre and to the left, as will appear 

 from comparing with the artificial form the stanza that follows : 



2 





4 



5 



6 

































12 



11 



Know, O wise man, that those who come to the brink of the river of the gods, and repeating 

 the name of Rama depart to immortality, are absorbed in Vishnu ; they, like cold in winter, do 

 not return to this sinful world ; their hope, like the horizon bright with the setting sun, obtains 

 liberation from the world, and is no more disappointed. 



10. — The is of a more extensive form, and I am indebted to 



the Calcutta Christian Observer, August, 1835, for a specimen of it : it was 

 composed by a pandit at Nadiya, and addressed to a Missionary. It is not 

 quoted for the sense it contains, but as furnishing an example of a number 

 of stanzas arranged in the form of a tree. The stem of the tree beginning 

 from the top iT, and going to the bottom W, forms the first stanza. By 

 taking the left hand side, and joining all the letters with the stem, other 

 stanzas are produced, as '^T^'^T; and so forth to the bottom of the stem. 



