The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.10
The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.10
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The *śloka*, or *anuṣṭubh* (‘with regular stops’) is the most famous of all Sanskrit metres. There are two other typical examples of a *pāda* with 8, or less, syllables—the *gāyatrī* (‘singing’) of 3 × 8 = 24 syllables, and the *uṣṇih* (‘hymn’) of 4 × 7 = 28, which like the *śloka* have a large number of optional quantities and only a few fixed.