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Essay on the Metrical Compositions 



[Jan. 



Ba posh gar ba khatai rasiwa tana mazan 

 Kih hech nafs bashar khali az khata na bud. 



The first word of the first line of a beit or distich is termed the sadr 

 J^°i its concluding one the aruz u 0 ^' ^he ^ rst wor( ^ °f tne 

 second line is called the Matla and its last the Ajuz Jt^- The 



two last are by some styled the Ibtida and the Zarab <-r^ » 



The intervening words are called the Hasho 



For instance, in the preceding beit, the word Khuddwand is the 

 Sadr — Dastagir, the Aruz — Karim, the Matla, and Pazir, the Ajuz. 

 The words in the centre of the lines enclosed by these four, constitute 

 the Hasho. 



The beit has sometimes a double rhyme — in such cases the penulti- 

 mate is termed Kafiyeh and the ultimate Radif <— ■ *V,-^* In 

 the subjoined distich //astfi and Pasti form the Kdjiyeh, and the two 

 Joz the 



Panah i bulandi wa pasti Toi 

 Hamah nestand an chih hasti Toi. 



The/?w6«* LS^J 

 or quatrain, consists of four misras, the two first of which rhyme with 

 the fourth— for instance : 



