Vritta identification

[Arvind_Kolhatkar]

Dear Group,

I discovered by chance that the site

http://sanskrit.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/Chanda/src/formChanda.py/searchChanda

is a very good resource for identifying meters of verses. (The site
also has quite a lot about grammar too in it.) It has listed 1352
meters and these have been further classified to aid a search. There
is also a tool to identify the meter of a verse. By trial and error I
have devised the following method to use this tool.

In the space provided and using copy/paste I put in 68 syllables, with
la for लघु and gU for गुरु, as

gUgUgU gUlala lalala gUgUla gUgUla gUgU gUgUgU gUlala lalala gUgUla
gUgUla gUgU gUgUgU gUlala lalala gUgUla gUgUla gUgU gUgUgU gUlala
lalala gUgUla gUgUla gUgU

and clicked ‘search’ and the tool threw up as the answer
मन्दाक्रान्ता.

Next I entered the search string

gUgUla gUgUla lagUla gUlagU gUgUla gUgUla lagUla gUlagU gUgUla gUgUla
lagUla gUlagU gUgUla gUgUla lagUla gUlagU

and came up with an obscure vritta called इन्दुवंशा, which is almost
similar to the more well-known वंशस्थ, except that the first syllable
for वंशस्थ is la and for इन्दुवंशा gU.

I found that the tool requires entering la gU equivalents of all
syllables of the verse, and not just one pada or line.

Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, June 20, 2011.

[श्रीमल्ललितालालितः]

श्रीमल्ललितालालितः
lalitAlAlitaH

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 23:39, Arvind_Kolhatkar <kolhat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Group,

I discovered by chance that the site

http://sanskrit.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/Chanda/src/formChanda.py/searchChanda

is a very good resource for identifying meters of verses.  (The site
also has quite a lot about grammar too in it.)  It has listed 1352
meters and these have been further classified to aid a search.  There
is also a tool to identify the meter of a verse.  By trial and error I
have devised the following method to use this tool.

Nice.
Thanks for sharing.
But, link provided by you was giving error.
I've checked it. This is the correct link.
You don't need to go for la and gU.
Just put whole shloka in Kyoto-Harvard System as shown on this page.
I put this shloka :

yasmAdbhiyeva manasA saha vaidikI vAk
dUre caratyamumathApi tadekabhAvA ।
AnandabodhaghanamekamazeSayoniM
saMsUcayatyahamimaM nRhariM prapadye ।।

and after pressing the small un-labeled button on it's right, I got

य स्मा द्भि ये व म न सा स ह वै दि की वा क्दू रे च र त्य मु म था पि त दे क भा वा
आ न न्द बो ध घ न मे क म शे ष यो निंसं सू च य त्य ह मि मं नृ ह रिं प्र प द्ये 

and it's name

vasantatilakA [ वसन्ततिलका

Hope it helps.

[S. L. Abhyankar]

नमो नमः श्रीमन् "अरविन्द कोल्हटकर"-महोदय !
प्रशंसनीयं भवतः संशोधनं खलु ।
आपटे-महाभागेन तस्य शब्दकोशे वृत्त-विषये एकम् परिशिष्टं प्रदत्तमस्ति । अहम् तु तस्मादेव वृत्त-परीक्षणं करोमि ।
तत्र द्वादश-अक्षर-वृत्तेषु "इन्द्रवंशा"-वृत्तस्य उल्लेखः सर्वप्रथमः प्रदत्तः अस्ति ।
वृत्तस्य नाम "इन्द्रवंशा" इति उल्लेखितं न तु "इन्दुवंशा" इति ।
सस्नेहम् ,
अभ्यंकरकुलोत्पन्नः श्रीपादः |
"श्रीपतेः पदयुगं स्मरणीयम् ।"

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