PROSODY is at once the simplest and the most important branch of Sanskrit Grammar. Its rules do not depend on authority. Any one with a good ear accustomed to read Sanskrit is able to detect what is poetry, what is not poetry, and where there is break of poetry, in whatever garb it may be presented. Our manuscripts utterly ignore the convenience of readers by disregarding the rules of punctuation and divisions of poetry, often mixing it with prose and the printed works, although comparatively easier and more reliable, are generally not altogether free from most puzzling mistakes. A practical acquaintance with prosody not only enables us to successfully grapple with the former difficulties, but also in the case of classical texts always and in the case of older texts often to detect all ordinary faults of omission, insertion, and alteration.
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