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hand Ch. 37 a/9 and KD. II 25 define T 1974 as a metre of 21 morae divided as 6+4+6+5. As this infringes the explicit ban on the racist put by the CK., one would think this VII to be essentailly different from the 37741B of the CK. But the facts that the definition and illustration stanzas all without fail end in three shorts and that the illustration stanza in the Ch. has a caesura after the 12. mora (cf. ALSDORF'S observation, As. p. 47) do not allow any doubts regarding the basic identity of these two metres.
The fact appears that originally a 21-moraic stanza with the final three morae short must have been in common use for the Trichols and in accordance with the varying practices and traditions it came to have different Gaņa-divisions and positions of the caesura. Only thus can be explained the basic agreement but the divergence in details in the various accounts of this metre.
The Thi-stanzas of the SR. have the caesura optionally after the 11. or 12. mora. We saw above that the practice of some (CK. 17, Ch. 37 a/10-11) supports the 12-moraic caesura. On the other hand the 11-moraic caesura finds a stronger support in CK. 29. There while defining the strophe THIC (mark the name), it is prescribed for the first part-which though unnamed is completely identical in form with the 37979 except of course in the position of the caesura—that its lines are made up of 11+10 morae.
The general form of the 1941 in the SR. is (the superior quantities less common) :
-- +4+2 5+ 4/3+ -- + wow or alternatively T +4+
- + + www The individual This are represented as under (the two 73454 stanzas 86, 87 and the one it 54 stanza 204 are included in the calculations):
1. TOT (morae 1.02.) has two forms :
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