\getbuffer[padya]
\stoppadyaPair
What is a burden for the abled, and what is the (long) distance to the
perservering? What is a foreign land to the learned and who are strangers to
the sweet-spoken? (None!)
\stoptext
</texcode>
In summary: one defines a buffer which contains the paragraph (a verse in this example) in the original script. Then, using the <code>before</code> and <code>after</code> keys of {{cmd|definetransliteration}}, a pair of verses may be easily typeset into lines.