Dear Harry, 

Vaṁśīdhara in his comment on the first verse writes: kanakamañjarī naś ca rau lagau iti sūtrāt. The definition scans right, so to his mind the meter is Kanakamañjarī. I don’t know which sūtra he has in mind.

Best wishes,

Aleksandar

Aleksandar Uskokov

Lector in Sanskrit 

South Asian Studies Council, Yale University 

203-432-1972 | aleksandar.uskokov@yale.edu 

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Subject: [INDOLOGY] Metre of gopī-gītam

 

Dear list members,

Can anyone identify the meter of the gopī-gītam (Bhāgavata X, chapter 31).

See this link: https://iskcondesiretree.com/page/gopi-gita

It is 11 syllable's per line but as far as I can see it is different from the 11 syllable metres in Apte's dictionaries appendix.

Thanks,

Harry Spier