पीडीएफ सुरेशभट इन च्या सौजन्याने ६ eight, seven, six or five Matras or syllabic instants. Once the fundamentals were grasped, I was able to co-ordinate all the three kinds of metrical composition: Vrttas, Jatis and Chandas, which have been always employed by Marathi poets. As for Jatis, three or four of them were mentioned by Marathi prosodists who on the analogy of Vrttas merely counted the number of syllabic instants in a line. But more important than the number of syllables or syllabic instants in a line is its internal rhythm-structure, as also is the pattern of the stanza formed by lines. Two metres having the same number of syllabic instants in each line may yet be different from each other because of different internal rhythmic structures. The same rules of rhythm are exemplified in the Chandas in which all syllables whether short or long are treated uniformly as long. This kind of verse does not appear in classical Sanskrit and though Vedic metres are called Chandas the difference of short and long appears to be observed in them. This type of versification, however, is common in modern Hengali. In the field of vrttas my work has been mainly of compilation and re-classification, though I have discovered and emphasized the factor of internal rhythmic structure. Besides, I have collected a good deal of new material and made it available to students for the first time. But my studies in the field of Jati and Chandas and the general theoretical ground-work with which I have now provided the Science of prosody-these I humbly submit as my contribution to the knowledge of metrics. The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the University of Bombay for the substantial financial help it has granted towards the cost of publication of this book. January, 1937. Madhav T. Patwardhan
