Agnipurana 329

English (machine translation) 329

Language: English

329.9 — 1 part
329.20 — 2 parts
329.22 — 3 parts

329.1

Agni said: / A quarter serves to complete a verse: the quarters of Gāyatrī are taught as eight syllables; / the quarter of Jagatī has twelve syllables; the quarters of Virāj are declared to be ten.

329.2

From Viṣṇu, the quarter has eleven syllables; a metre may have one or more quarters: / the first has four quarters of four syllables, sometimes three quarters of seven syllables.

That Gāyatrī is Nīvṛt in a single quarter; Pratiṣṭhā and the like have six syllables in three quarters; / Vardhamānā has six, eight, and eight syllables; [another] three-quartered metre has six, eight, and seven syllables.

329.4

Gāyatrī of three quarters is Nīvṛt; Nāgī has nine, nine, and six syllables; / Vārāhī has six, two, and six syllables; and then the third metre

329.5

is two-quartered ending with twelve and eight syllables, while the three-quartered is taught to be composed of Triṣṭubh quarters; / Uṣṇih metre is proclaimed in the Veda as having quarters of eight and eight syllables.

329.6

Kakubh-uṣṇih has quarters of eight, twelve, and eight syllables, with just three quarters; / further, Uṣṇih consists of three quarters of twelve, eight, and eight syllables.

329.7

Paroṣṇih is subsequent to that, consisting of three quarters from the four-quartered form; / Anuṣṭubh consists of [four quarters of] eight syllables, and sometimes it has three quarters.

329.8

It may have quarters of eight, twelve, and twelve syllables, sometimes in the middle and at the end; / if three quarters are of Bṛhatī and Jagatī, and the first is of Gāyatrī,

329.9

the third is Pathyā; another is Kusāriṇī; / shoulders and neck are found in Krauṣṭukā; or in Yakṣa it may also be Bṛhatī.

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329.10

Upariṣṭādbṛhatī has it at the end; further, Purastādbṛhatī has it at the beginning; / sometimes there are four quarters of nine syllables, or eight syllables in the cardinal and intermediate directions.

329.11

Mahābṛhatī has three Jagatī quarters; Sato-bṛhatī is likewise; / Bhaṇḍila is a Paṅkti metre with quarters of twelve, twelve, eight, and eight syllables.

329.12

When the first two quarters have four syllables and are Sato-paṅkti, the reverse also occurs; / Prastārapaṅkti has it in front, and Āstārapaṅkti has it in the quarters behind.

329.13

Akṣarapaṅkti has four quarters of five syllables, or rarely two; / Padapaṅkti has five quarters of four syllables, or three of six syllables.

329.14

With five quarters of six syllables of Gāyatrī, and with six quarters, it is Jagatī; / Triṣṭubh with one [additional] is taught as Jyotiṣmatī, and Jagatī is likewise.

329.15

Purastājjyotis has it in the first; Madhyejyotis has it in the middle; / Upariṣṭājjyotis has it from the last, and similarly in one quarter of five syllables.

329.16

The metre becomes Śaṅkumatī, and with six syllables the metre is Kakudmatī; / that which has a slender middle quarter of three quarters is Pipīlikamadhyā.

329.17

The reverse is Yavamadhyā; Trivṛt is diminished by one syllable; / Bhūmija has one syllable in excess, and that lacking two syllables becomes Cirā.

329.18

Avarāj has an excess of two syllables; where there is doubt, [one determines it] from the deity and so forth; / the metre is ascertained from the initial quarter, and its deities in sequence are: