usually confined to the actions of men. They may therefore, be compared to Pope's Rape of the Lock, the principal poems of Byron and Scott, the tale of Joseph and Zuleica in Persian, and similar, compositions. ,
The last class is in subject and arrangement parallel to the second; but here the chief object is, to display the rhetorical and poetical powers of the language.
While these three classes comprize the principal works in Telugu literature, there are likewise smaller compositions, which form the highest literary amusement of the ordinary classesof thepeople,whoare unable to peruse the more important works: these form an extensive class of productions in an easier style than most of the foregoing; some intended for amusement, and others for instruction in religion and morals; some detail a mythological story, taken from the puranas, while others, are acknowledged fictions; many of these are elegant,, while all are.very short and easy. Such are the Sugrlva Vijayam,. the Garadachalam, the Sita Calyanam, the Sdranga Dhara Charitra, and many more.
Beyond these again are many compilations of epigrams and similar' short compositions, resembling the anthologies of other languages, the stanzas being unconnected with each other. These are generally named salacams or centos of verses, so entitled as being numbered in successive hundreds; they are principally on morals, and linked together by a chorus in which the writer's name is usually
