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vritta and where the two metres belong to two different groups, the vritta is called Parasthanarthasama vritta. Where each line of a vritta is of a different metre from the rest, that verse is called an irregular vritta. It seems permissible to make the distinction of Svasthana and Parasthana in regard to irregular vrittas also. It will thus be seen that the total number of ordinary metres in Sanskrit (and hence also in Canarese and Telugu) is well nigh incalculable. On the top of these, come the Uddharamala vrittas i.e. metres which contain more than twenty six syllables in a line. A wellknown instance of these is the Dandaka metre.
Jatis:-Jatis which are made up of matra ganas seem to have been, in their origin, popular or folk metres, while vrittas were learned metres. They are either Sanskritic such as Kanda or purely Dravidian such as Sisa.
Yati or Caesura:—Yati in Sanskrit is a synonym for Visrama or Virama and means a pause. It indicates the place in a verse-line where the reader needs to stop for breath. As it is hardly convenient to stop in the middle of a word, Yati has come to be defined as the breaking off of a word. (యతిర్విచ్ఛేదసంజ్ఞకః). Pingala allows a deviation from this rule in rare cases in the interests of free flow of versification. There must always be yati at the end of a line. That is to say, every line
