faLa AAT ED NM NIP MP a SA AE a De ra cere need ce ere en PRE CECEER Cee ee Li SL SA Da NO, SON ORL, Ve ere eee ee eee weeewers ECE + wercer cress cine JE ueit qe Reparenit wate OR CEt OSC FER EOE CEE OF CO eet CESSES FER CEE ECR eb EEE Ratt BeTUTET apesnrer Sit earr orteahe faa area, gaeeare, ire, with, varaT ETE, TiPeRET, erga, Rar ate aie, ona site frat ga scat at ace sagt fee aie aco Of & aa site i f we i at Riga, a sie qe aaj i i sar sqm afta fare | j ; a B oreter ater Tara ead cea & SRT Prat Sarera “Carrara Ba?, ravage # coe aft | renDaD aren aes ang aes aR oBes 499399097933 993 200 sta RED % saat auifrere wane! & eriiztn F Dae 07 Ra lana sas ans At aseagreeeanaean? fart auleenaed oF meg STE (ata-ahe) ones oftreee afrac taae (meme) 3 4 afca wx sentir far | j i i; es sretere | se renee | eros iINTRODUCTION, First Edition, This work 18 an attempt to eivea complete and systematic view of the science of Protody in the Hindi Language- Hindi claims to be the immediate offspring cf Sanskrit aud its modern represent ative in the home of its highest ancient development, and by right Of d.rect heirship it inherits all the many sided refinement and verbal fiexibility and wealth of the original tongue. In certain centuries ft recerved the highest patronage and encouragement, and such great names as ‘Tulsidas, Surdas, Keshodes, Deo: Bhushan, Padmakar, Gang, which mark some of the extreme - teaches of its development, stand out pre-emsnent to challenge the admiration of all posterity, thus while the dialects of Hind: are diversified, careful cultivation has given them a refinement of veroal combinations aud a subtlety of verbal fusions and forms which render the collective material presented for the manipulation of the literary craftsman or for the use of imaginative genius, unt, ove and unrivalled in elegant plasticity This work explains more than 100 technical terms and enunclates not les» than 400 construc tional rules metrically illustrated by me 2. In Sanskrit Prosody, Pmgal Eeshs 1s the greatest authority He 1s to Aryan Prosody what Manu 18 to Aryan Law. In Sanskrit and In Hind: Bhasha several works have, at different times ppeared the chief among which are Chhando-Manjari, Vritta Ratnikar, Chhando-Vineda, Chhundassar and Chhand-Vichar But they are all alter the old style, whereas the present work 1s an attempt to give one comprehenstve rnd systematic view of the scrence of Prosody from the earliest period of ita culture to its most recent developments, eliminating ell that haa become permanently obsolete and all that bore indications of absurd compl-xity: [ have alyo taken upon myself the task of naming certain novel and later day metres and metrical arrangements, ana in dowg sol have selected the most appropriate, modest and simple names. 3, In Hindi as in Sanskrit, all metrical composition 1s divided into two great sections which are characterised by two separate modes of metrical computation, Computation by series of sylla~ bies and computation of the'number of syllabic instants in each line or verse And the present work is accordingly divided into two main sections named “Afatrio" and “Yarn”. These two sections of