No. 5. — 1850.] THE ELU LANGUAGE. 



281 



composed of two letters in the alphabet, and in which are 

 incorporated all the vowel sounds : — 



Birds of divers colours entered the forest ; the nd ( Mesua 

 Ferrea) and bakmi (Nauclia orientalis) became fresh (with 

 foliage) ; the unwise eloped wives have received no consolation ; 

 (and) the forests became rivers to the bathing elephants. 



Illustrative of the decorations of style which the Sin- 

 halese poets make their study, I may also mention the 

 existence in their compositions of what may be termed 

 rhymes in the middle of a stanza. This is very common 

 except in short metre. Of this species the following will 

 serve as an example : — 



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@>q£D q £S €3o q#3dlt3 Qio) @33oe) © 25} d 



C€5, £3 § t3o 33aG525> O 253 d 



<§>q q &5 go €33 ®(2>e5 qcs>c[® £b 253 d 



O Chief (Mudaliyar) Disanayaka ! unbounded in wealth by 

 reason of your valuable charities ! just as the increase of learning 

 in proportion to its impartation to others ; on my bended knees 

 do I constantly pray that you will visit us. 



The two following verses may be read in one diagram of 

 uniform construction by the omission of sixteen letters :— 



4£>£ ©#)3 0£D *8 



6 £D 



(1) CC <^(3 C S C 



(2) ©C3253 G532SD g Q 



(3) tdd&z&iQ @*»3(3§ S C 



(4) @>§)@QeS §C3 ®3D£3®€3 g (3 



* The numbers have reference to the lines in the diagram on page 282, 



