ON SANSCRIT ALLITERATION. 



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To the ultimate Being's 

 To the Lord of the lowliest's 

 To the universal Ruler's ser- 

 To the ■world-containing Deity's service 

 To all pleasurable delights ev 

 To the enjoyment of agreeable food ever 

 To the worship of the Supreme Deity ear- 

 To reposing on beautiful couches, laudab- 

 To wandering in places of retirement 

 Full of merit, peaceful, grave, to good deeds in 

 Clad in neat garments, with mind to wisdom devot 

 Protector of the poor, prosperous, meditating the Shasters 

 Faring abundantly, right-spoken, and ever pure in 

 Removing the griefs of the poor, with mind fixed on God, 

 Delighting to aid others, slow to unbecoming behaviour, ex 

 Devoted to virtue, following the instructions of the Shasters, excel- 



may 

 Sal- 



Being's ultimate the To 



Being's all-wise omniscient the To 



ser- Deity's preserving all the To 



service just good Bestower's the To 



ev- Deity redeeming great the To 



most Invisible the of worship the To 



ear- duties proper your weigh to Maturely 



just- enjoyment every of sweetness the taste To 



fondly groves charming through rove To 



in- compassionately upright, clever, Handsome, 



dispos- meditation to happy, duties appropriate to Attached 



prone ever ill and good of balancing the To 



in clean ever and mild-spoken. Sin-hating 



devoted, truth to, holy, righteous. Merciful, 



ex- another help to slow not, diligeat, iutelligent, Sober, 



excel- passions subdued of,truth speaking,patient, composed, Tranquil 



In addition to the different kinds of Alliteration which have been 

 specified there is one other worthy of notice : it is that of forming stanzas 

 with any given number of consonants. Verses are formed, from which half 

 the letters of the alphabet are excluded, and others in which only one- 

 fourth part of the consonants occurs. These are again reduced to three, 

 two, and even one consonant. It might appear altogether impossible to 

 compose an entire and intelligible verse by the aid of a single consonant ; 

 yet in Sanscrit this has been achieved. In the following stanza no conso- 

 nant is used save ^ d, and it occurs no less than six and thirty times. 



(Krishna) the benevolent, the troubler of the injurious, thepurijier, whose arm is destructive 

 to the impious ; who gives both to the liberal and the miser, and is the destroyer of destroyers, 

 discharged a weapon at the enemy, 



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