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something essential to the form of the रासक. Like पूर्वमेघ and उत्तरमेघ of the Heça these 4 s indicate a turn in the development of the poetic theme. Thus the first sont of the SR. is prefatory or introductory. With the second 44 begins the theme proper, while the third प्रक्रम occupies itself with षड्ऋतुवर्णन in the context of a विरहिणी and brings the theme to a close.
One small point worth noting is the use of two-lined stanzas (3767A) and six-lined stanzas5 (cf. foot-note 52). Stanzas 58, 63, 74, 104ab, 125, 155, 190, 198, 207 and 220 illustrate the former and stanzas 113, 117 and 118 illustrate the latter. We find here the you (e. g. at 133-134, 168-169) and the glas (at 121-125) also, though in view of the lack of sentence connexion between 121-125, the lastnamed cannot be properly so called.
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