The verses of the Vedas have a variety of different meters. They are divided by number of padas in a verse, and by the number of syllables in a pada. Chandas, the study of Vedic meter, is one of the six Vedanga disciplines. Veda redirects here. ... Meter (non-American spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of verse. ... A pada ( foot) in Sanskrit poetic meter (chandas) is a quarter of a full verse (the foot of a quadruped being one out of four), e. ... The Vedanga (IAST , member of the Veda) are six auxiliary disciplines for the understanding and tradition of the Vedas. ...
jágatī: 4 padas of 12 syllables
triṣṭubh: 4 padas of 11 syllables
virāj: 4 padas of 10 syllables
anuṣṭubh: 4 padas of 8 syllables, this is the typical shloka of later Hindu poetry
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Gayatri (gÄyatrÄ«) is the feminine form of gÄyatra, a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn. ...
References
B. van Nooten und G. Holland, Rig Veda, a metrically restored text, Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1994.
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