The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.1

c13.s2.1

Sanskrit metres fall into two main classes: (1) those which consist of quarter-verses (*pāda*) of a given number of syllables, and (2) those which consist of verses of a given number of feet, each foot having a given time-length which is reached by equivalence. The first are called ‘syllable-fixed’ (*varṇavṛtta*), the second ‘time-unit-fixed’ (*mātrāvṛtta*).