- Syllables per pāda
- 11
- Kind
- Samavṛtta — all four pādas alike
- Gaṇas
- ja ta ja ga ga
- Yati after syllable
- 5
Four pādas of 11 syllables; all four are built alike.
Pattern
1⏑–⏑––⏑⏑–⏑––
2⏑–⏑––⏑⏑–⏑––
3⏑–⏑––⏑⏑–⏑––
4⏑–⏑––⏑⏑–⏑––
How to read the marks
- ⏑Laghu — a light syllableOne beat. Said short and lightly.
- –Guru — a heavy syllableTwo beats: held exactly twice as long as a light one. In the line it also carries a faint tint.
- Pāda boundaryA stanza falls into four quarters — pādas. The boundary is a short stop, as at the end of a line.
- Yati — caesuraWhere the breath falls inside a long pāda. A shorter, fainter rule.
Example
अदृष्टपूर्वं हृषितोऽस्मि दृष्ट्वा
भयेन च प्रव्यथितं मनो मे ।
तदेव मे दर्शय देव रूपं
प्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास ॥
adṛṣṭa-pūrvaṁ hṛṣito 'smi dṛṣṭvā
bhayena ca pravyathitaṁ mano me |
tad eva me darśaya deva rūpaṁ
prasīda deveśa jagan-nivāsa ||
Bhagavad Gita 11.45Open the verse