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form. Although in these hymns the iambic cadence of the first verse is still the most frequent (25%) of all varieties, it is already very nearly equalled (23%) by the normal and characteristic cadence of the first verse in the epic anuṣṭhubh
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Thus the first half of the line tends to be iambic, while the second half is almost always iambic. In those lines where the 2nd syllable is short, the third syllable is almost always long.
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Arnold distinguishes three varieties of anuṣṭubh in the Vedic corpus: an early free form, with very few restrictions except a general iambic (u – u x) tendency in the cadence (
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Prolegomena on Metre and Textual History of the R̥gveda: Metrische und Textgeschichtliche Prolegomena, Berlin, 1888
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Macdonell, Arthur A. (1916), A Vedic Grammar for Students Appendix II, p. 438. (Oxford University Press, 1916).
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half-verses are arranged in the table above in order of frequency of occurrence. The most common is the
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had the restricted form shown in the table above. Each half-verse of 16 syllables can take either a
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It has been shown that the percentage of long (or heavy) syllables in 8-syllable lines in the
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28). Eds. Hahn, Michael & Jens-Uwe Hartmann. Swisttal-Odendorf (1996), 227-248.
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Steiner, Roland. "Die Lehre der Anuṣṭubh bei den indischen Metrikern."
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Next came a mildly trochaic development in the opening of each
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Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference
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Sanskrit
[ɐnuˈʂʈubʱ]
Vedic
Classical Sanskrit
quatrain
Atharvaveda
śloka
śloka
Rigveda

śloka
Kalidasa
Kalidasa
Bharavi
Magha
Bilhana
Mahabharata
"Hiatus avoidance and metrification in the Rigveda."
Vedic metre in its historical development
Vedic metre in its historical development
"Revisiting the Mūlamadhyamakakārika: Text-Critical Proposals and Problems."
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978-81-208-0986-4
Vedic metre
Sanskrit prosody
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Sanskrit words and phrases
Poetic rhythm
Stanzaic form

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