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THE INDIAN ANTIQUABY.
[APRIL, 1873.
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2. Kusuma has 10-10-17-10-10-17. 3. Boga-12-12-20-12-12-20. 4. Bamene-14-14-23-14-14-23. 5. Parevardeene-16-16-26-16-16-26. 6. Vardika-20-20-32-20-20-32.
The third line, it will be seen, is in every case one and a half the first plus two.
Take an example :ಕನ್ನಡದ ನುಡಿ ಯೆಂದುಪೇಕ್ಷಿಸ. 14
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The number of lines in which the second consonant is the same is six. This tells us the verse belongs to the Satpade. Now by counting the number of accents in each line we find that the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th lines have 14 accents; the 3rd and 6th lines have each 23.
The verse then is of the Bamene subdivision of the Satpade. The last subdivision of the Matra Vritta is the Areya. Like the Kanda the Areya is a verse of four lines. The 1st and 3rd lines of the Areya verse must have 12 accents each. The number of accents in the 2nd and 4th lines determines the minor subdivision of the Areya to which the verse belongs.
The subdivisions are
(i.) Géta, where the 1st and 3rd lines have 12 accents, 2nd and 4th have 18.
(ii.) Uppa Géta: lst and 3rd lines-12 &c. centa, 2nd and 4th lines—15.
(ii.) Sun Géta : 1st and 3rd lines have 12 accents. The 2nd and 4th do not agree in the number of accents.
When the line is long enough to require it there is a rest or cæsura in the middle. This is called Yete. In the more perfect verse where a rest does occur, the initial consonant of the word following such rest is the same as the initial consonant of the line. This is not an essential, but, like the use of the Antya Pragn, the verse in which it is found is considered more finished and perfect.
THE CALENDAR OF TIPŲ SULTAN.
By P. N. PÔRNAIYA, B.A., YELUNDURU. It may be a matter of surprise to many that which the number of days in the month is deTipu Sultan of Maisur, generally known as an termined is peculiar. A partial explanation is illiterate person, invented a Calendar, differing afforded in the following extract from the preface from the ordinary Muhammadan one, and which to Richardson's Dictionary English, Persian, he always used in officially addressing the various and Arabic :functionaries that served under him. It is not "The Muhammadan year is lunar. The known at what time precisely he introduced his months consist alternately of twenty-nine and calendar, but it is believed by Colonel William thirty days. To the last an intercalary day is Kirkpatrick that he did so, some time between added eleven times in & period of thirty years, January and June 1784 A.D.
and these are abounding years. Thirty-two Tipú allowed the week to have the usual years of the Christian are nearly equal to thirtynumber of seven days, but the month was three Muhammadan years." changed, for though the number of them in the The difference will be obvious from the folyear was twelve, yet it differs from both the Euro- lowing table, which shows the Hindú names pean and Hindú month in the number of days corresponding to the months of Tipú's Calendar, that each contains. The principle according to and also the signs of the Zodiac.
• Vide Select Letters of Tippu Sultan, by Colonel William Kirkpatrick. London, 1811.
