• Anuṣṭubh (Sanskrit: अनुष्टुभ्, IPA: [ɐnuˈʂʈubʱ]) is a metre and a metrical unit, found in both Vedic and Classical Sanskrit poetry, but with significant...
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  • 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...
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    "fearsome one", or "the dark matter") and the goddess Bhairavi in 163 Sanskrit anuṣṭubh stanzas. It briefly presents around 112 Tantric meditation methods (yuktis)...
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  • 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...
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    the meter too is systematically arranged from jagati and tristubh to anustubh and gayatri as the text progresses. The rituals became increasingly complex...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    with different bhāṣyas (commentaries). The text is a mix of prose and anustubh-meter poetry verses. Kamasutra acknowledges the Hindu concept of purusharthas...
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