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The prasa rhyme duly connects every couplet: thus in the first it falls on the letter V. in the next, st, in the third, N. &c. Occasionally we find three lines rhyming together: and elsewhere poets indulge in rhyming terminations: thus in the Dwipada Ramayana, Yuddha, P. 2178.
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Prasa yati is used in some Dwipada poems of ancient date, but is considered inelegant.
By adding these, the poet has employed eight rhymes in each couplet.
If Prasa is not used, the metre is denominated sfcoeS Manjari. In this metre is written that entertaining historical romance the <6«rjji8StfC6jJJ or Legends of Palnaud.
SECTION V. ON SOME UNUSUAL METEES.
There are a few uniform metres which call for explanation because they occasionally occur: and the reader may revert to them after acquiring a little familiarity with the prosody. These are chiefly borrowed from Sanskrit.
The Sragdhara: which divides the line of twenty-one syllables into three parts: and the yati comes thrice. Prasa as usual. The following, in the Sura Bhand Eswaram, is evidently translated from a verse in the Amrugam which is in the metre. But the Sanscrit metre commences with a long syllable which the Telugu divides into two shorts.
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