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Vedic meter
The verses of the Vedas
have a variety of different
meters. They are divided by number of
padas in a verse, and
by the number of syllables in a pada. Chandas, the study
of Vedic meter, is one of the six
Vedanga
disciplines.
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jágatī: 4 padas of 12 syllables
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triṣṭubh: 4 padas of 11 syllables
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virāj: 4 padas of 10 syllables
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anuṣṭubh: 4 padas of 8 syllables, this is the typical shloka of later Hindu
poetry
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gāyatrī: 3 padas of 8 syllables
References
- B. van Nooten und G. Holland, Rig Veda, a metrically restored text,
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1994.
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