help with identifying a metre

Roland Steiner steiner at MAILER.UNI-MARBURG.DE
Fri Oct 10 11:21:37 UTC 2003


As I already wrote Jonathan Silk off-line, the four lines are indeed composed in the Aaryaa
metre (with minor defects):

v = short syllable or 1 maatraa
- = long syllable or 2 maatraa-s

mama bhavatu mara.na.m maatu sthitasya dharme vizuddhabhaavasya /
v v v v v [!] / v v - / - -  // v - v / - - / v - u / - - / -

na tu jiivitena kaarya.m sajjana<jana>dhikk.rtena mama //
v v - / v - v / - - // - v v / <v v> - / v / - v v / -


svargasya dharmalopo yato bhavati jiivitena ki.m tena /
- - / v - v / - -  //  v - v / v v - / v - v / - - / -

mama mara.nahetunaa vai budhaparibhuutena dhikk.rtena //
v v v v / v - v / - -  // v v v v / - - / v / - v - [!] / -

or to be analysed as : v v v v / v - v / - -  // v v v v / - - / v  - v / -  - / [!] (Giiti)

With kind regards,
Roland Steiner





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