CHAPTER II.
ON THE FIXED METRES.
12. The fixed, or uniform metres used in Sanscrit and Telugu, and named Sama Vritta (సమవృత్తాలు) or Jati Vritta (జాతివృత్తాలు) have the four lines of the verse always similar. I will first describe those most common in Telugu. The last syllable in each line is always long, (see § 52, note.)
13. Many of these differing very slightly, I have classed them in pairs; each line divides at the syllable on which the yati rhyme, or csesura, falls. This syllable rhymes to the initial of the line; and to render it plain, I shall divide each line into a couplet at tbe place of the yati, which is denoted by a star.
14. Utpala-mala metre.
"Like a chain of rounded sapphires have I composed this "Purplelotus-wreath."
Champaca-mala; which differs from the preceding merely by dividing the initial long into two shorts.
