[INDOLOGY] Fwd: metre help - timely.

[Martin Gansten]

It looks to me like a slightly corrupt rathoddhatā verse. Could it be 
that it should run something like this?

śakticāpaśaraghaṇṭikāsudhāpātra-ratna-kalaśopaLAKṢITāṃ /
pūrṇacandra-vadanāṃ trilocanāṃ śāradāṃ namata sarvasiddhi[-]dām //

Martin Gansten
Lund University


Christopher Wallis skrev 2013-05-10 20:24:
> Dear list members,
>
> I am having quite a bit of trouble identifying the metre of a
> dhyāna-śloka of Śāradā. It's mystifying me, but then I am not an expert
> in metrics. At 23 syllables per hemistich, I assume it must be a
> Jāti-type metre (measured in mātras), but I can't seem to identify it.
> Here is the verse and the scansion, any help would be much appreciated!
>
> śakticāpaśaraghaṇṭikāsudhāpātra-ratna-kalaśopalasat-karāṃ <|>
> pūrṇacandra-vadanāṃ trilocanāṃśāradāṃ namata sarvasiddhipradām ||
>
> - u - u u u - u - u - - u - u u u - u u - u -
> - u - u u u - u - u - - u - u u u - u - u u -
>
> u = laghu
> -  = guru
>
> best,
> Christopher Wallis
> UC Berkeley
>
>
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