130. Regarding vowels, £?, (3, £>, ST, a, k, ai, au, rhyme together. Thus If, 'Tr*-, 1, IT* correspond.d[1]
131. The vowels S}, o\ as in I, %, V^, "3, ""§, correspond.
Also dy, fj»*, and 8o & (as in &, Kr», f~", and §*'*) correspond.
132. Lastly, an initial vowel cannot always rhyme to a vowel not initial: thus SJfSi ^00 and the 8 in TP>3c£& could not rhyme ;_but if the syllable § were formed by an elision, as in &ic5'8"C£^<i3 gUch a rhyme would be allowable.e[2]
133. These few rules have been subdivided by different prosodians into 133 twenty-four, twenty-seven, and even forty-one species: to this needless number, Appa Cavi, the chief critic in Telugu literature, has added seventeen species of prasa.
Of all these I prepared a translation, and had inserted it in the present work, but perceiving1 that the best scholars now living consider Bhimana's
- ↑ d Of course no distinction is made between the short and long forms of a rowel.
- ↑ e See Sismondi in his View of the Literature of the South of Europe, Toi. 1, p. 100— Alliteration it seems was in use before the rhyme at the end of the line, thus in an ancient German po°m there quoted we find passages in which the initial of the Terse rhymes to some syllable in the line, while there is no rhyme at the close j and thus in a passage of Chaucer; somewhat modernized however in the spelling; Crooms of that garrison made game and glee Birds iuilded in Miss, £ri.;htest of Mere, &c. Our subsequent poets adopted another mode; and the old system was rejected, which the Telugu poets have preferred and greatly rc6ned.
