The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.11

c13.s2.11

When the *pāda* is of more than 8 syllables—as in the *triṣṭubh* (‘with three stops’) and the *jagatī* (‘lively’), of 11 and 12 syllables respectively, and various others up to 21 or more syllables—all the quantities are fixed. Couplets of these greater lengths are usually written in stanzas of four lines, and the lines are in modern poetry rhymed. Here is an instance of the *triṣṭubh* genus (11 syllabled); it has the poetical name of ‘the thunderbolt of Indra’ (*Upendravajra*), and is in Marathi (rhymed):