Nalopákhyánam : Story of Nala, an episode of the Mahábhárata: the Sanskrit text, with a copious vocabulary and an improved version of Dean Milman's translation, by Monier Williams.

Date:
1879
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Credit: Nalopákhyánam : Story of Nala, an episode of the Mahábhárata: the Sanskrit text, with a copious vocabulary and an improved version of Dean Milman's translation, by Monier Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The metre of the Sanskrit text never varies from the regular sloka measure called Anushtubh, an account of which, with a table of all the most common varieties of metre, is given at the end of the fourth edition of my Sanskrit Grammar, published at the Clarendon Press. It consists of sixteen syllables to the half-line or thirty-two to each verse of two lines. The first line of the poem serves as a model for the whole, and with the exception of the six syllables, whose quantities are here marked by the usual prosodial marks — 1| w-w), the poet is allowed the option of either long or short: dsid rdjd ndlo ndma || virasenasuto ball. Occasionally the 6th and 7th syllables are short instead of long. M. W. Oxford, June 1879.