Book, Chapter

 1  12   |   consists of seven books, 500 cantos, and 24,000 couplets. Twenty
 2  12   |        24,000 couplets. Twenty cantos were recited each day, so
 3  12, 2| strangers in this soil!~Twenty cantos of the Epic, morn to night,
 4  12, 3|        a youthful lad!"~Twenty cantos of the Epic thus the youthful
 5  12, 3|      And five hundred glorious cantos in this glorious Epic shine,~
 6 Epi   |       again in added lines and cantos. The grief of the old monarch
 7 Epi   |        two or three succeeding cantos. The unity of the composition
 8 Epi   |      and that it comprises 500 cantos and 24,000 couplets. And
 9 Epi   |     selected those sections or cantos which tell the leading incidents
10 Epi   |       verses, divided into 500 cantos or sections, in twenty-five