CHAPTER VI.
ON RHYME.
119. Rhyme is seldom admitted in Sanscrit composition, and I am not sivrare of any rules for rhyme in that language. In Telugn rhyme has been reduced to certain rules, which are always strictly observed ; a degree of liberty is granted, which is exactly defined.
The reader is already acquainted, that the rhyme denominated yati falls on the first syllable in each line,y[1] to which one or more syllables in that Line alone correspond : while prasa connects the four lines in a verse by a similarity iu the second syllables.
120. Regarding prasa it is only requisite to observe, that perfect conformity is necessary in the consonant, the same letter or its aspirate must be used throughout; but the vowel is of no importance. Thus in the Sardula verse which has been quoted in section 23, we perceive that ng is the prasa, oX, oK, Ot», and oK> appearing in the four lines. Somecriticks admit a flight liberty in the fourth line; yet this is rarely used ; and does not extend so far as that allowed in yati: it merely allows such letters at & and oj and $ &c. the aspirated with the unaspirated, to rhyme'
- ↑ y The Canda Terse excepted, in which the first and third lines have no yati.
