The Utsaha is merely a variety of the Ramayana already described : it is composed of seven Surya feet and a long syllable: whereas most of the Changing metres end in a short syllable: the yati falls on the fifth foot and the prasa is as usual. The following instance is in the Vishnu Puran. 2. 58.
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TSSodSuai "336 OKIES' • <£-V BdSS sJ^afesS" )ft)0
See a better instance in Kala Purnodayam 3. 238.
And in the same poem. s—oo>t.
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Also Padma 8. 118.
The last changing Metre to be described is the t'^_* Accara which is used only by Nannaya Bhatt, and one or two imitators. The poet himself uses only two varieties; which he calls by the one name Accara: but the prosodians not only have given separate names to these two, but have named four others: of which I have met no instances. In all probability, these were mere Melodies like the Ragada; or like some songs in Moore and Byron ; they were experiments in metre which have not attained popularity.
These metres use the Chandra feet: that is, an Indra foot to which a syllable (usually short) is added. The first is called the ^"^.Sl^tf Madhy'accara; wherein the line consists of two equal portions; or, we may consider it as eight lines; each containing
