[INDOLOGY] help with meter

[Uskokov, Aleksandar]

Dear Madhav,

Thank you so much, I should have recognized that this is a quote.

Best wishes
Aleksandar

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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] help with meter

Dear Aleksandar,

The verse
ṣaraṃ pradhānam amṛtākṣaraṃ haraḥ kṣarātmānāv īśate deva ekaḥ /
  tasyābhidhyānād  yojanāt tattvabhāvād bhūyaś cānte viśvamāyānivṛttiḥ  // 1.10 //
Is found in the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad [1.10].

So this is not a classical composition, and therefore not subject to the rules of classical meters. We have to treat it as a late Vedic verse form.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 8:28 AM Uskokov, Aleksandar <aleksandar.uskokov at yale.edu<mailto:aleksandar.uskokov at yale.edu>> wrote:
Yes, it is Sarvajñātman's Saṅkṣepa-Śārīraka 4.46:

kṣaraṃ pradhānam amṛtākṣaraṃ haraḥ
kṣarātmānāv īśate deva ekaḥ |
tasyābhidhyānād yojanāt tattva-bhāvād
bhūyaś cānte viśva-māyā-nivṛttiḥ || 46 ||

As in the Ānandāśrama edition (Vol. 83.2, p.842):

[cid:ii_19002e1a1c8cb971f161]

Best wishes,
Aleksandar


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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] help with meter

Can you please give the text of the verse?

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 7:28 AM Uskokov, Aleksandar via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
Dear friends,

Has any of you encountered a meter with the following structure:

a: ja bha ja ra
b: ya ta ta ga ga
c: ma ma ya ya
d: ma ta ta ga ga

Quarters c and d correspond to vaiśvadevī and śālinī, but a and b I cannot identify in Apte, though b seems a variation of śālinī with the first syllable laghu.

Any help appreciated.

Best wishes,
Aleksandar


Aleksandar Uskokov

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South Asian Studies Council and Department of Religious Studies, Yale University

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