"The Demons, foes of the Immortals, hurl'd
Along the tattle's front iheir dreadful darts
And arrows zving'd with wo; which all obscur'd
The hosts on either side; hut arm'd with bow,
And moony disc on their broad shoulders slung,
Glorious, in panoply of light array*d,
Ndrayana, and Arjun (Kara vam'd,)
Rush'd forth, and on the hosts devoted fell."
30. The rest of the regular metres are seldom used in comparison of those now described. The following memorial lines will assist the learner in understanding them, but I avoid swelling the size of this work by adducing instances. The Telugu prosodians, who never consulted the ease of the learner, scan every species of uniform verse by feet of three syllables. Yet the rhvthm often shews that thev are naturally divided oihervvise : and this makes some metres very easy which arc usually considered complicate ia the extreme. Between the name3 of some metres, as the Malini and Manini, the difference is not easily recollected, and the verses have therefore been so contrasted as to fix the doubtful sellable on the memory. In
