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the 3. Tu and and the 6. moraic 7 in 199e is such as cannot be split up into 2+4.
17. 569. Occurrence : 115-116.
There are only two sources-one known, the other unknownwhich can impart requisite information regarding this metre, and as usual the definitions given by them are at variance with each other. VJS. IV 731 says that when w arst is combined with 79T the result is c5654. Thus the VJS. treats 05654 as a strophic metre. On the other hand the quotation from an unknown source given in the 2101 (on SR. ) and the 379 yficl (on SR. 113) states that 056527 known also as frage contains twenty us which means that it is identical with w arst, having five muts per line. So the name that the VJS. applies to the whole strophe is found given to only the first part of the strophe in the quotation just referred to. It may be observed passingly that this sort of looseness in naming a strophe and one of its parts is evidenced also in the case of a few other metres. The names वत्थु (or वत्थुअ), रड्डा (see 17) and चंदायण (or चंदाणण) are found applied to the whole strophes as also to their first parts.
Our 65654 conforms to the definition given by the VJS. and not with one quoted in the com. The U5654 of SR. 115-116 is quite apparently patterned on the illustrative 05654 stanza (perhaps a citation) at VJS. IV 74.
II Metres of the Gathā type.
98. TIET (TTT). Occurrence : (independently) 1-17, 32-40, 72, 84, 90, 93,uu 126-129, 149, 152, 153, 172, 213, 221; (as the second part of 45654)
The language of the Tents is always real with a small spattering of Ap. forms. The normal scheme of the Tent is
first half. 4+4+4/4+4+ 4 +4+
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