in which last form some grammarians wish to use-the semicircle <STM6vcK~*Q^ a refinement that never has become popular.
The hard initials 5" C fc> 3 * following the Nominative are substituted by the softening initials X & O 3. Thus S&^t&T^abS' ad becomes ^ffi&'P^iifBO the robber is going. ^StJi&'So'B becomes 55^8$fk"G3o^3 Hari is gone sii^)iSb"%rSji*he is gone noWV*&> ■^e^tffjSB becomes "csSa'S'woS'sio we wholly depend upon Rama. If two Tadbhavam words come together, as Sjsfc>«£> + Jf{&e3o*3 (for 5"ooe3o^) softening is requisite: but if the first word is Telugu, as po\%±Z&&o^a Such a change does not take place: as go(S-ff|jf:S_8 father is a king, not ^^^s&o'-^'J&ao he is Vishnu, not ■ct°«s>s-(4+<£s>!6 Such refinements are worth the attention of poets alone: a foreigner should never use the softened initial in such places.
These rules have little claim to a place in Grammar; for they more properly belong to a treatise on versification ; a subject with which we, as foreigners have no concern. It has however hitherto been the custom not only to describe them in native Grammars, but to give them a very prominent place, I would willingly omit them, were it not that the student requires to be warned that many words which occur in poems have the initial altered. Thus the word B^jt) chepputa to say, is often spelt "S^4-> jepputa and even "7>*;y*J and even Sepputa.
It is obvious that these niceties, though important to poets are of no use to men who study a language only with a view to public business. Even among the poets themselves, there is some discrepancy of opinion. For these changes are regulated rather by taste than by any fixed rule. (See page 41.)
ON CONTRACTION IN POETRY.
Some Sanscrit mahat nouns (see page 31, 221) M Tt»6»jso Ramudu (a well known proper name) can in poetry form the accusative by dropping or else by substituting P. Thus "o^£» r'Saa or ms»p§^Qt>d they honoured Rama. And though "O'sfco ends in TJ, the form x^sSx^ is not admissible.
