No. 5.— 1850.] 



THE ELU LANGUAGE. 



279 



autumn : pray kindly send me a correct book answering to the 

 first four letters of this stanza. 



The following from the Kaviyasekare is a specimen of a 

 stanza containing the same word repeated several times, 

 but conveying at each repetition a different meaning : — 



(1) ©gdks ©©53 © e) 



(2) 88 £9<8&©«a ®e)*ae)«o @ © *a 



(3) flp<S*Sg<5<@6 © £> «3 



(4) <5^eg<g £>i«8S ©©33 ©(3 © © S3 



(1) The paroquet which extracts honey from the sweets of 



flowers ; 



(2) The bees which enter the widespread lofty mi forest ; 



(3) The wild buffalo which destroys the ground and the forest 



by its horns ; 



(4) The rats daubed with glittering chalk (plumbago) which 



enter the holes of trees. 



Carrying the last plan a little farther, the author of the 

 Kavminikondala has given us one line, which when repeated 

 four times conveys four several meanings : — 



(1) ©^)^qe ®q@e«sc 



(2) ©tfDaaq© @^®G<SS<3 



(3) DzftsscQ @^®(3&£C 



(4) ©3323qe ®q@C<a£C 



(1) The jungle trees became bright with the tender foliage ; 



(2) The forest became bright by reason of the assemblage of 



plantain trees ; 



(3) The eloped wife glistened with (her) streaming tears ; 



(4) The jungle was bent with (the weight of) the dew upon 



the tender leaves. 



The same elegant writer has given us several puns of 

 this kind, of which the reader will observe the following 

 stanza, consisting of ten letters in each line, when divided 

 into two may be read without the second half, by supplying 



