On dewy buds she still would graze
His hermitage around,
And woo'd her fostering master's gaze
With high elastic bound.
63. In a series of Sisa verses (denominated a SIsa Maiica) these choruses are sometimes omitted, one alone being subjoined at the close.
64. The Dwipada is the easiest of all metres, being written, as the name imports, in couplets ; which generally rhyme together in prasa; while other metres require four p rasas. If prasa is not used, the metre is named Manjari. Dwipada is never mingled with other metresbut some entire poems are composed in it alone. If more than two line3, in this metre, are connected by prasa, it is denominated. Chatushpada, or Shappada, as composed of four or six lines in the verse. The following specimen is from Ranga Natha's translation of the Ramayana, book 2, sect. 24', where Rama persuades Sita not to enter the forest with him.
"Reflect that there are elephants, tigers, bears, wolves, deer, hills, acrpe?its, demons, and creeping red ants, in the vallies and mountain caves.
