and trochee) are added. The Chandra feet, however, are only used in some few rare metres.n[1] See section 147.
53. With the feet thus formed, all the changing metres are constructed. The learner will find it useful to recollect, that a Surya foot that begins with a long, has two syllables; but three, if it begius with a short.
54. And in Indras, that feet beginning with a long, have three syllables; but those that begin with a short, have four.
55. And that where the first syllable is short, the second also isi With these feet the following metres are composed.
The Giti metres (గీతివృత్తములు).
56. There are two species of Giti metres; the Teta giti (తేటగీతి) and A'taveladi (ఆటవెలది). The Teta giti has four equal lines, each consisting of one Surya foot, followed by two Indras, and two Siiryas. That is, five feet, of which the fourth rhymes in yati to the initial. There is no prasa. The following specimen is from the Subhadra Parinaya. The star shews the yati.
- ↑ n The learner will observe that in the fixed metres every line terminates in a long syllable; but in the changing metres (that is, in those formed with the feet now described, not the Canda, &c.) every line terminates in a short: for every one of the component feet closes with a short. The illiterate copyists always lengthen the last syllable.
