[INDOLOGY] help with meter

Agnes Korn agnes.korn at cnrs.fr
Mon Jun 10 16:09:44 UTC 2024


a. would be a regular Vedic Jagatî line, b. and d. Tris.t.ubh (these two 
meters are often combined); c. is not quite a regular line.

Best,
Agnes

Le 10/06/2024 à 18:07, Uskokov, Aleksandar via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> Dear Daniel,
>
> Thank you for this.
>
> Best wishes
> Aleksandar
>
>
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> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of 
> Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Sent:* Monday, June 10, 2024 12:01:09 PM
> *To:* Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] help with meter
> This should probably not be analysed in terms of classical 
> syllabo-quantitative metres, but in terms of Vedic metre, where the 
> patterns are more loosely defined. See Arnold's Vedic metre on 
> trimeter and combinations of triṣṭubh and jagatī lines within a 
> verse.Arnold, Edward Vernon. 1905. Vedic Metre in Its Historical 
> Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11-14, esp. 
> §§54-55.
>
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 at 17:29, Uskokov, Aleksandar via INDOLOGY 
> <indology at list.indology.info> 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):
>
>
>     Best wishes,
>     Aleksandar
>
>     Aleksandar Uskokov
>
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>     *From:* Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
>     *Sent:* Monday, June 10, 2024 11:22 AM
>     *To:* Uskokov, Aleksandar <aleksandar.uskokov at yale.edu>
>     *Cc:* Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
>     *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> 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
>
>         Senior Lector and Associate Research Scholar
>
>         South Asian Studies Council and Department of Religious
>         Studies, Yale University
>
>         203-432-1972 | aleksandar.uskokov at yale.edu
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