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Anustubh

Cool blog entry
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

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

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

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

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

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

Nooten/Holland text UTA site (Thomson/Slocum)

E.V. Arnold excerpt online PDF

Lists of meters

Too big. Moved to subpage

Revert

Basic diff
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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

Sanskrit metre recognizer

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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.

[1] Patwardhan, M. (1937), Chandoracana, Bombay: Karnataka Publishing House

[2] 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

[3] Deo, Ashwini. S (2007). "The metrical organization of Classical Sanskrit verse" (PDF). Journal of Linguistics. 43 (01): 63–114.

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