Anustubh
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- Citation: MacDonald, Anne: "Revisiting the Mūlamadhyamakakārika: Text-Critical Proposals and Problems." Indotetsugaku-Bukkyōgaku-Kenkyū 14 (2007), 25-55. (Appendix: translation of Appendix 4 from: Steiner, Roland: "Die Lehre der Anuṣṭubh bei den indischen Metrikern." Suhṛllekāḥ, Festgabe für Helmut Eimer. (Indica et Tibetica 28). Eds. Hahn, Michael & Jens-Uwe Hartmann. Swisttal-Odendorf (1996), 227-248.)
Nifty Site
edit- Sanskrit meter recognizer
- Classical meters only. See their complete list. Note absence of "tristubh", "jagati", "anustubh", etc.
- Śloka ('zloka' in H-K notation) not listed, but apparently recognized.
- E.g. cf. anustubh from AB.8.21
- AsandIvati dhAnyAdaM rukmiNaM haritasrajam
- azvam bahandha sAraGgaM devebhyo janamejaya
- with anustubh from SBM.13.5.4.2 (Eggeling's translation)
- AsandIvati dhAnyAdaM rukmiNaM haritasrajam
- abadhnAdazvaM sAraGgaM devebhyo janamejaya
- The first is (accidentally) recognized as a shloka but the second is not. Key point: classical shloka requires 5th syllable laghu. But vedic anustubhs don't really care. And must be accidental because the AB version is older.
Vedic
edit- E.V. Arnold,Vedic metre in its historical development
- H. Oldenberg, Prolegomena on Meter and Textual History of the RgVeda
- Mangal Deva Shastri, Rg-pratisakhya
- Need Vol 3 (1937) specifically for translation and notes (scanned text available at archive.org). Beware Amazon! Vol 1 (1922) is only 36 pages and is actually just an introductory essay. Vol 2 (1931), Allahabad, is the actual text of the RP and Uvata's comm.
- Patalas 16-18 of the RP have stuff on metres. Griffith maybe got his list from here (?).
- There are xrefs to the Nidana Sutra (by Patanjali for the Samaveda, not the Buddhist one!) which has stuff on metres for samans.
- Max Muller, SBE Vol 32 (Vedic Hymns, Part 1) Long introduction with material on metre and metrical reconstruction of RV text.
- Macdonell/Keith, Vedic Index. Entry on chandas.
- J Gonda (ed) A History of Indian Literature, Vol 1 Fasc 1, "Vedic Literature (Samhitas and Brahmanas)", Ch IV.
- H. Oldenberg, "Introduction to the Grihya-Sûtras", in F. Max Müller, The Grihya-Sûtras Part 2, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 30. (discusses anustubh in particular)
- M. Bloomfield, The Atharva Veda. p.41f.
Classical
edit- Pingala, chandaḥśāstra
- Kedarabhatta, vṛttaratnākara
- On these see transliterations and helpful notes here, viz Pingala and Kedara
- Macdonell, Sanskrit Grammar, Appendix
- Coulson, Teach Yourself Sanskrit, Appendix
- Velankar, Jayadāman
- E.W. Hopkins, The Great Epic of India, C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901, Ch. 4 (pp191-362 in the 1969 reprint, Punthi Pustak, Calcutta) LCCN
- Amulyadhan Mukherji, Sanskrit prosody: its evolution, Calcutta, Saraswat Library, 1976. CATNYP
Chandovicitiḥ
edit- attributed to Patanjali (what a mess!)
- could be apocryphal(?)
- mentioned in Rajasekhara, kavyamimamsa, link, Adhyaya 2 (search for kalpo finds it)
- CATNYP Records
- According to this catalog, Item 9, p.5, (site looks legit), this is part of the Nidana sutra. "Chandovicitiḥ, an ancillary work of Sāmaveda, is a part of Nidānasūtra attributed to Patanjali. The work elaborately deals with Vedic metres and their different varieties."
Articles
edit- Steiner, Roland: "Die Lehre der Anuṣṭubh bei den indischen Metrikern." Suhṛllekāḥ. Festgabe für Helmut Eimer. (Indica et Tibetica 28). Eds. Hahn, Michael & Jens-Uwe Hartmann. Swisttal-Odendorf (1996), 227-248.
- MacDonald, Anne: "Revisiting the Mūlamadhyamakakārika: Text-Critical Proposals and Problems." Indotetsugaku-Bukkyōgaku-Kenkyū 14 (2007), 25-55.
Metric restoration
edit- Nooten/Holland text UTA site (Thomson/Slocum)
Lists of meters
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- Saved added info:
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The most exhaustive compilations, such as the modern ones by Patwardhan[1] and Velankar,[2] contain over 600 metres. This is a substantially larger repertoire than in any other metrical tradition.[3]
- E.V. Arnold, Vedic metre in its historical development, Cambridge, UP, 1905.
- Friedrich Max Müller; Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1886), A Sanskrit grammar for beginners (2 ed.), Longmans, Green, p. 178 PDF
- Recordings of recitation: H. V. Nagaraja Rao (ORI, Mysore), Ashwini Deo, Ram Karan Sharma
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- ^ Patwardhan, M. (1937), Chandoracana, Bombay: Karnataka Publishing House
- ^ Velankar, H.D. (1949), Jayadaman: a collection of ancient texts on Sanskrit prosody and a classical list of Sanskrit meters with an alphabetical index, Bombay: Harito?amala
- ^ Deo, Ashwini. S (2007). "The metrical organization of Classical Sanskrit verse" (PDF). Journal of Linguistics. 43 (01): 63–114.