FOOTNOTES:
[125] See Benfey, Gesch. der Sprachwissenschaft und orient. Philologie in Deutschland, München, 1869, pp. 361-369.
[126] The ślōka, the triṣṭubh and the jagati metre are described, the last two, however, not by name. Nārada's speech, p. 236, is in ślōka, 16 syllables to the line; the first distich, p. 233, is in triṣṭubh, 22 syllables to the line. Quantity of course is ignored.
[127] See Benfey, op. cit. pp. 379-405.
[128] Friedr. Schlegel, Sämmtliche Werke, Wien, 1846. vol. ii. p. 82 seq.
[129] Aug. W. Schlegel, Sämmtliche Werke. Leipz. 1846. vol. iii. p. 7 seq.
[130] Ibid. i. p. 82.
[131] Friedr. Schlegel, Weisheit der Indier, pref. pp. xii, xiii. See also prefatory remarks to the poem in question.