guage, yet far more profitable to those who do not as yet attempt higher branches of reading. The terse and condensed style used in the proverbs and maxims of all languages, cannot be expected to exemplify every form of the verb or every intricacy of syntax. For these the reader must resort to compositions more polished and more diversified.
NOTE.
Most of the verses in this author are, like the first twenty, composed in the Ataveladi metre, and have one uniform chorus;
Viswad abhi rama vinara Vema,
the first syllable of which, (వి.) placed at the end of such verses, denotes the repetition. For " Viswad abhi" some copies have "viswat abhi" and others "viswat obhi." The import of the chorus is obscure, but the sense of each verse is complete without it. Some believe that the "Vema" so addressed, was the elder brother of the moralist.
The notes and the indexes will, I hope, furnish every information required by the reader.
