There are also peculiarities in the rhyme. The Dwipada uses both yati and prasa: as do also the Eagada, Taruvaja, Utsaha and Accara. But in the simpler metres (Giti and Sisa) the yati rhyme is requisite but prasa is needless.
But sometimes, instead of yati, prasa is used in the same line: this will be afterwards explained.
Thus some of the Changing metres have a fixed prasa and others an optional prasa No metre that uses the fixed
ought to use the other kind: but many poets break this rule. The fixed prasa is always used in combination with yati: the optional prasa is used instead of yati.]
These remarks will be understood better when we have examined the verses now to be cited.
To aid the memory, we may observe that some of the Indra feet have four syllables and others three : and one Surya foot having three syllables and the other two:—the longer foot of each kind has a short initial. In other words, if any Indra foot begins with a long syllable, it has three syllables: but four if the initial is short: a Surya that begins with a long has two syllables: the one beginning with a short has three.
The commonest upajati Metres are called Giti, Visa, and Dwipada. The Giti Metres ft 8s5j Two metres are known
by this name: the Ataveladi W-t>"3«>a and the Tetagiti 1}fc>&0 both of which are denoted by the initial M.
The Ataveladi has, both in the first and third lines, three Suryas and two Indras: the second and fourth lines have five Suryas in each. In all four lines, the yati rhyme falls on the fourth foot, denoted by the asterisk. The following Ataveladi is in the
