A chandas program

[G S S Murthy]

Dear all,

Several years back I had developed a java app. which outputs the name of a Sanskrit metrical structure if a quarter of any Sanskrit verse in Roman characters as per Baraha convention is input. A software expert Mr.Venkatesh nsvnar...@gmail.com whom I got in touch with through this [Samskrita] group has been kind enough to convert it into an executable app in Windows. This file is now available at

http://www.mediafire.com/?p21y045io80il5o

Those interested may download it and use.

Feedback could be given to me at murt...@gmail.com

Regards

Murthy

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Arvind_Kolhatkar]

I tried this with the following selection of verses:

मन्दाक्रान्ता A vaarNika meter. 17 syllables. मभनततगग.

कश्चित्कान्ताविरहगुरुणा स्वाधिकारात्प्रमत्तः

शापेनास्तङ्गमितमहिमा वर्षभोग्येण भर्तुः।

यक्षश्चक्रे जनकतनयास्नानपुण्योदकेषु

स्निग्धच्छायातरुषु वसतिं रामगिर्याश्रमेषु ॥

स्वागता A vaarNika meter. 11 syllables. रनभगग.

कस्यचित्किमपि नो हरणीयं

मर्मवाक्यमपि नोच्चरणीयम्।

श्रीपतेः पदयुगं स्मरणीयं

लीलया भवजलं तरणीयम्॥

पञ्चचामर A vaarNika meter. 16 syllables. जरजरजग.

जटाकटाहसम्भ्रमभ्रमन्निलिम्पनिर्झरी-

विलोलवीचिवल्लरीविराजमानमूर्धनि।

धगद्धगद्धगज्ज्वलल्ललाटपट्टपावके

किशोरचन्द्रशेखरे रतिः प्रतिक्षणं मम॥

मदिरा A vaarNika meter. 22 syllables. भभभभभभभग.

माधवमासि विकस्वरकेसरपुष्पलसन्मदिरामुदितै-

र्भृङ्गकुलैरुपगीतवने वनमालिनमालि कलानिलयम्।

कुञ्जगृहोदरपल्लवकल्पिततल्पमनल्पमनोजरसं

तं भज माधविकामृदुनर्तनयामुनवातकृतोपगमा॥

पादाकुलक A matrika meter. 16 matras in each quarter, divided into 4 matraganas of 4 matras each.

मूढ जहीहि धनागमतृष्णां

कुरु सद्बुद्धिं मनसि वितृष्णाम्।

यल्लभसे निजकर्मोपात्तं

वित्तं तेन विनोदय चित्तम्॥

अपरवक्त्र A vaarNika meter. 11/12 syllables in alternate quarters. ननरलग/नजजर.

अनुमतगमना शकुन्तला

तरुभिरियं वनवासबन्धुभि:।

परभृतविरुतं कलं यथा

प्रतिवचनीकृतमेभिरीदृशम्॥

I got the right answer only for the well-known मन्दाक्रान्ता.  The program failed for all the rest.  Why is that so?

Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, December 04, 2012.

[murthy]

The following are the names of metres the program identifies:

"gajagatih","pramaaNikaa","maaNavakaM","bhujagaSiSubhRutaa","bhujamgasamgataa",

      "maNimadhyaM","tvaritagatih","mattaa","dodhakaM","bhramaravilasitaM","campakamaalaa","indravajraa","upendravajraa","Saalinee","stree",

        "rathoddhataa","vamSastha","indravamSaa","drutavilambitam","kusumavicitraa","vaiSvadevee",

            "taamarasam","bhuja~Ggaprayaatam","sragviNee","priyamvadaa","maNimaalaa",

            "lalitaa","praharShiNee","ma~JjubhaaShiNee","praharaNakalikaa","vasantatilakaa",

            "maalinee","SikhariNee","mandaakraantaa","pRuthvee","SaarduulavikreeDitam",

            "mattebhavikreeDitam","sragdharaa","lalitaa","puShpitaagraa","vaalmeeki32",

            "hariNee","jayadeva3","jayadeva5puurvaardha","jayadeva5uttaraardha","kuTaka",

            "deSikadayaapUrvaardha","deSikadayaa_uttaraardha"

You will see in the above list some metres used by poets but not listed in "Vruttaratnaakara". I have given some adhoc names to them tagged on to the name of the poet. The program also recognizes Anushtup and Aryaa.

Regards,

Murthy

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[Arvind_Kolhatkar]

For those interested in prosody, the site http://sanskrit.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/Chanda/HTML/list_all.html is a very good resource.  They have a database, as of today, of 1352 meters.  When you enter the sequence of syllables in a quarter of a verse in the 'laghu-guru' order following the Kyoto-Harvard convention, it identifies the meter.

Its limitation appears to be that it works only for akSharagaNavrittas and not for maatraagaNavRittas.

While several old and new books in various languages are available for those interested in prosody, I find that the Hindi book 'ChaandaPrabhaakara' by Jagannath Prasad 'Bhanu' is very comprehensive and user-friendly.  It is available at the DLI site.

Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, December 05, 2012.