Anushtubh meter
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The Anushtubh meter is a classical Sanskrit poetic meter of four eight-syllable lines, most famously used throughout the verses of the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sanskrit poetic meter
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metre ⓘ prosodic form ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Chandas-shastra
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Pingala’s Chandas Shastra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalLength | 32-syllable stanza ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Indian poetics
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Sanskrit prosody ⓘ |
| hasCommonForm | 4x8-syllable shloka form ⓘ |
| hasFootName | pāda ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
devotional verse
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narrative verse ⓘ philosophical verse ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later Indian vernacular metres ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily | Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ |
| hasLineCount | 4 ⓘ |
| hasNameInSanskrit | Anuṣṭubh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginCulture | ancient India ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUse |
didactic verse
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epic poetry ⓘ |
| hasProsodicUnit | syllable ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
Hindu religious literature
ⓘ
Itihasa texts ⓘ Puranic literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSyllableCountPerLine | 8 ⓘ |
| hasSyllableTypeConstraint | patterns of laghu and guru syllables ⓘ |
| hasTotalSyllableCountPerStanza | 32 ⓘ |
| hasTradition |
Vedic prosody
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classical Sanskrit poetry ⓘ |
| hasTypicalStructure | four pādas of eight syllables each ⓘ |
| hasUsagePeriod |
Vedic period
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ⓘ
classical Sanskrit period ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
classical shloka
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shloka meter ⓘ |
| isMostCommonMeterIn | classical Sanskrit literature ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Vedic Anushtubh
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ⓘ
classical Anushtubh ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInScripture | Bhagavad Gita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInTextType | shloka ⓘ |
| usedInWork |
Mahabharata
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ⓘ
Ramayana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenInScript | Devanagari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.