A Poem In Sanskrit Poetry Format Comments

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Part one In Indian languages including Sanskrit, one letter constitutes one syllable. So, let use the word “letter”, when I talk about Sanskrit meters. In Sanskrit meters, the poem is always written in shlokams. A shlokam is a stanza of four lines. A poem can have any number of shlokams. It is said that epic Mahabharatam has one hundred thousand shlokams.

Part 2 The letters can be Laghu (short, as in ‘ka’) or Guru (long, as in ‘kaa’) . A set of three letters constitutes one GaNam. Based on the position of Gurus and Laghus in the GaNam, GaNams are of 8 types. For example, ‘Ya’ GaNam has its letters as follows: First letter is Laghu Second letter is Guru Third letter is Guru.

Part 3 The types and number of GaNams is each line define a meter. Usually, all the four lines in a shlokam have exactly same set of GaNams at the same position. This is what makes recitation of a poem in one meter makes it distinctly unique and different from that in another meter.

Part 4 Just as in the case of English meters, we have in Sanskrit small meters like Anushtuppu (8 letters in each line) , meters of medium length like Indravajra (11 letters in each line) and the longer ones like Sragddhara with 21 letters is each line or Panchachamaram (16 letters in each line) .

Part 5 In the case of Panchachamaram, in each line, there are five GaNams of three letters each and the sixteenth letter is a Guru. There are meters with different set of rules for different lines in a shlokam. Such meters are called Vishama Meters

Part 5 In the case of Panchachamaram, in each line, there are five GaNams of three letters each and the sixteenth letter is a Guru. There are meters with different set of rules for different lines in a shlokam. Such meters are called Vishama Meters, whereas meters that have the same rule for all the four lines is “Sama meter”.