Jagati

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Jagati is a classical Vedic poetic meter characterized by longer lines, commonly used in hymns of the Rigveda.

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Jagati canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Vedic poetic meter
metre in Sanskrit poetry
characterizedBy longer metrical lines
comparedWith Anustubh
Gayatri
Tristubh
culturalContext ancient India
hasAssociationWith Rigvedic ritual recitation
hasCanonicalSource Rigveda
hasSyllableStructure relatively high syllable count per line
language Sanskrit
surface form: Vedic Sanskrit
meterType quantitative meter
partOf Sanskrit prosody
Vedic prosody
script Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari (in later written tradition)
studiedIn Indology
Sanskrit poetics
Vedic metrics
timePeriod 2nd millennium BCE (Vedic period)
tradition Vedic tradition
usedFor religious poetry
solemn hymns
usedIn Rigveda
Rigvedic hymns
Rigveda
surface form: Vedic hymns

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Rigveda meterUsed Jagati