Anuṣṭubh (Sanskrit: अनुष्टुभ्, IPA: [ɐnuˈʂʈubʱ]) is a metre and a metrical unit, found in both Vedic and Classical Sanskrit poetry, but with significant...

but 95% of the stanzas are ślokas of the anuṣṭubh type, and most of the rest are tristubhs. The anuṣṭubh is found in Vedic texts, but its presence is...

"fearsome one", or "the dark matter") and the goddess Bhairavi in 163 Sanskrit anuṣṭubh stanzas. It briefly presents around 112 Tantric meditation methods (yuktis)...

three Sanskrit names: Hare, Krishna, and Rama. It is a poetic stanza in anuṣṭubh meter (a quatrain of four lines (pāda) of eight syllables with certain...

which also occur in the Atharvaveda collection; in this period also the anuṣṭubh tends towards the form it had in the epic period, with a trochaic cadence...

literature and consists of nearly 24,000 verses (mostly set in the Shloka/Anuṣṭubh metre), divided into seven kāṇḍa (chapters). It belongs to the genre of...

the meter too is systematically arranged from jagati and tristubh to anustubh and gayatri as the text progresses. The rituals became increasingly complex...

Classical Sanskrit and languages of the Epics. Complex meters such as Anuṣṭubh and rules of Sanskrit prosody had been or were being innovated by this...

with different bhāṣyas (commentaries). The text is a mix of prose and anustubh-meter poetry verses. Kamasutra acknowledges the Hindu concept of purusharthas...

cultivation of walnuts. The epic is composed in 21 Sanskrit metres, namely Anuṣṭubh, Indravajrā, Upajāti, Upendravajrā, Aupacchandasika, Toṭaka, Drutavilambita...

syllables. This style is derived from older Vedic forms. An example is the Anuṣṭubh metre found in the great epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, which...

represent 24 Vedic Meters (i.e. Chandas). They are: 1.gāyatri, 2.uṣnik, 3.anuṣṭubh, 4.bṛhati, 5.paṃkti, 6.triṣṭubh, 7.jagati, 8.atijagati, 9.śakvari, 10.atiśakvari...

famously composed using the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre called shloka. English iambic pentameter: Like to Ahasuerus, that...

traditionally depicted as a warrior carrying five arrows of flowers. The term anuṣṭubh has been used to signify "eight" as it is the name of a meter with eight...

poetic and set in a meter. Many are composed in the metrical unit called Anuṣṭubh of Sanskrit poetry, making them easy to remember and melodic when recited...

contain 37 or 38 chapters. Predominant number of its verses are in precise Anustubh meter (4x8, or exactly 32 syllables in every shloka), some verses are in...

(aka decapentasyllabic verse): iambic verse of 15 syllables. Saturnian Anuṣṭubh: a quatrain with each line (called a pāda, or 'foot') having 8 syllables...

who is styled rajyādhikṛta or state officer. The seal carries a verse in anuṣṭubh metre. Seal. A charter of king Pravarasêna, the ornament of the Vâkâtakas...

written in Pallava script, arranged in the form of Sanskrit Sloka with Anustubh metrum, consisting of five lines that run around the surface of the stone...

the heaven. May the Visvedevas, common to all men, prepare you, with the anustubh meter, you are the directions. You are the unchanging direction, make unchanging...

time of the early Vedic hymns to the classical period. The Vedic meters anuṣṭubh (4 × 8 syllables), gāyatrī (3 × 8), and two main types of trimeters, jagatī...

in a type of stanza known as the śloka, which developed from the vedic anuṣṭubh metre. A śloka usually consists of two 16-syllable half-verses of the following...

meaning of samhāra as destruction. The evocative poetry is in the popular Anustubh Chanda form of four line stanzas- a total of 144 stanzas. Collated by William...

work of Sanskrit literature, containing 16,374 shlokas, mostly in the anustubh metre. The text is also known as the Harivamsa Purana. This text is believed...

mantras, the text presents the mantra – "Dattatreya Hare Krishna ..." – in Anustubh metre. It praises Dattatreya as Hari and Krishna, names of Vishnu. It identifies...

B; p. 57. Macdonell, Arthur A., A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, Appendix II, p. 232(Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1927). Anustubh Vedic meter...

Nagari script and dated to mid 8th century CE uses a mix of Vedic meters (Anustubh, Sragdhara, Arya, Vasantatilaka and others). The inscription states starts...

medicine (kaya-chikitsa). The text mainly consists of shloka verses in anuṣṭubh metre, and only the Sharira-sthana part contains prose passages. The Sutra-sthana...

sections of four syllables each. Thus the 8-syllable lines used in the anuṣṭubh (4 × 8 syllables) and gāyatrī (3 × 8) metres are usually represented as...

Sanskrit metres are the three 8-syllable Gāyatrī, the four 8-syllable Anustubh, the four 11-syllable Tristubh, the four 12-syllable Jagati, and the mixed...