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477891 is a peculiar kind of story, in which various incidents are narrated in a variety of ways.
When only a part of a well-known story is narrated, either from the middle or from the portion at the end, it is called a 154.
A coinplete story with all its various incidents is narrated in सफलकथा. . When out of a well-known story the life of only one person is related it is called उपकथा.
DETI deals with the lives of many persons, contains marvellous incidents and has chapters which are named FFHS.
961 is a well-known type of a story written partly in prose and partly in verse. It is, as a rule, written in Sanskrit. The author, sometimes, introduces his own name or the names of other persons in a 277. Its chapters are called उच्छासs.
*s are stray unconnected verses. Almost every verse in ## is complete in itself and is independent. Sometimes three, four, five or more verses form a group by themselves.
A verse independent and complete by itself is called a मुक्तक. Almost all the verses in अमरूकशतक are मुक्तकs.
Two verses forming one group are called संदानितक. Three verses grouped form विशेषक.
A group of four verses forms कलापक.
A group of five or more verses upto fourteen forms garsFr.
These stray or floating verses may be composed in any language.
When a number of such stray verses is introduced in a big poem it is called quf. Generally in every A817177
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