86. Other verses denominated Pada, Kirtana, Gandharva, and Bhagavata pada, allow still greater liberty, and are seldom reducible to the laws of. prosody, being regulated chiefly by (Sangita pada) musical measures.
87. The Dandaea is a measured prose formed of a short syllable, and two longs, alternately: thus it may be scanned with (Y or T) bacchic or autibacchic feet. It must end in long syllables, and one is usually superadded, but it sometimes commences, with two tribrachs and a trochee. No limit is fixed for its length, and there is neither yati nor prasa. The following specimen is taken from the Bhagavata (book x, part j ): the passage being of great length, the commencement and close are alone inserted here. For the ease of the reader, I divide it into lines of four feet in each.
