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group only. It is treated as a aiza (Cx. 16, PP. II 208 ) as also as a FETIT (PP. I 196-198). As a guy it is made ap of 8 ATS, with the first caesura after the 8. syllable and the second after the 16. This distribution of the caesurae has a rhythmic significance as it changes the anapaest rhythm of the middle portion to a dactylic one. This fact is indicated by the 10-scheme of the SAT of the A1277-type. It is 6+4/4+4/6+4+4. The difference between the face of the sun type and that of the HTZETT type is that the two shorts and one long in the non-final arts of the former are replaceable in the latter respectively by one long aud two shorts. In other words all other forms of a tha are permissible except the Fitur, But, as the two specimens from the Sr. show, in practice there is a strong tendency to preserve the rhythm of the aufger-type i. e. the opening and the close anapa estic, the middle dactylic.
In the case of one of our hors the fact that separate stanzanumbers (Sr. 22,23 ) are given for each half raises one issue. Ck. 43 defines a metre called as a four-lined A# metre with the scheme 18 (odd), 13(even). The rhyme in the lines of CK. 43 indicates that a caesura is to be recognised after the 10. mora, so that 10+8 (odd), 13(even) is the scheme. Further PP. 99 defines this very as a two-lined metre made up of 7 adulas and 3 shorts, with the caesurae after the 10. and the 18. mora. Now granting the liberty of considering the final syllable anceps, Sr. 22 or 23 (or any 1 i for that) is quite a good war. Perhaps it makes for a greater degree of precision to name the metre of SR. 22 and 23 77. But following the comm. here it is considered as a stasi, wrongly divided into two.
(d) Strophic Metres. $ 17. A strophic metre results from the combination of two stanzas in two (or more) different metres to form a unit. In the Sr. we have three strophic metres: , ary (three varieties), ESE54.
15. gr. Occurrence. 18, 19, 24, 25, 222, 223.
Of the two parts of the in the first receives the name 765 (should it be 1753 ?) in the Cr. (34). Svayambhū, Hemacandra and others call it A (191). atet forms the second part of
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