Chaubola
Chaubola (Hindustani: चौबोला or چوبولا) is a quatrain meter in the poetry of North India and Pakistan, often employed in folk songs.
Example
[edit]In one sequence in the Urdu opera Inder Sabha, Indra, the king of the gods, enters his court and announces in a chaubola[1] -
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References
[edit]- ^ Kenneth Ballhatchet, David D. Taylor (1984), Changing South Asia: City and culture, Centre of South Asian Studies, The School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 1984, ISBN 9789622340213,
... Raja Indar at first performs a dance and then sings a chaubola, in which he proclaims, Raja hun main quam ka ...
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