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Anustubh

 * Cool blog entry
 * Citation: MacDonald, Anne: "Revisiting the Mūlamadhyamakakārika: Text-Critical Proposals and Problems." Indotetsugaku-Bukkyōgaku-Kenkyū 14 (2007), 25-55. (Appendix: translation of Appendix 4 from: Steiner, Roland: "Die Lehre der Anuṣṭubh bei den indischen Metrikern." Suhṛllekāḥ, Festgabe für Helmut Eimer. (Indica et Tibetica 28). Eds. Hahn, Michael & Jens-Uwe Hartmann. Swisttal-Odendorf (1996), 227-248.)

Nifty Site

 * Sanskrit meter recognizer
 * Classical meters only. See their complete list.  Note absence of "tristubh", "jagati", "anustubh", etc.
 * Śloka ('zloka' in H-K notation) not listed, but apparently recognized.
 * E.g. cf. anustubh from AB.8.21
 * AsandIvati dhAnyAdaM rukmiNaM haritasrajam
 * azvam bahandha sAraGgaM devebhyo janamejaya
 * with anustubh from SBM.13.5.4.2 (Eggeling's translation)
 * AsandIvati dhAnyAdaM rukmiNaM haritasrajam
 * abadhnAdazvaM sAraGgaM devebhyo janamejaya
 * The first is (accidentally) recognized as a shloka but the second is not. Key point: classical shloka requires 5th syllable laghu.  But vedic anustubhs don't really care.  And must be accidental because the AB version is older.

Vedic

 * E.V. Arnold,Vedic metre in its historical development
 * H. Oldenberg, Prolegomena on Meter and Textual History of the RgVeda
 * Mangal Deva Shastri, Rg-pratisakhya
 * Need Vol 3 (1937) specifically for translation and notes (scanned text available at archive.org). Beware Amazon! Vol 1 (1922) is only 36 pages and is actually just an introductory essay.  Vol 2 (1931), Allahabad, is the actual text of the RP and Uvata's comm.
 * Patalas 16-18 of the RP have stuff on metres. Griffith maybe got his list from here (?).
 * There are xrefs to the Nidana Sutra (by Patanjali for the Samaveda, not the Buddhist one!) which has stuff on metres for samans.


 * Max Muller, SBE Vol 32 (Vedic Hymns, Part 1) Long introduction with material on metre and metrical reconstruction of RV text.
 * Macdonell/Keith, Vedic Index. Entry on chandas.
 * J Gonda (ed) A History of Indian Literature, Vol 1 Fasc 1, "Vedic Literature (Samhitas and Brahmanas)", Ch IV.
 * H. Oldenberg, "Introduction to the Grihya-Sûtras", in F. Max Müller, The Grihya-Sûtras Part 2, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 30. (discusses anustubh in particular)
 * M. Bloomfield, The Atharva Veda. p.41f.

Classical

 * Pingala, chandaḥśāstra
 * Kedarabhatta, vṛttaratnākara
 * On these see transliterations and helpful notes here, viz Pingala and Kedara
 * Macdonell, Sanskrit Grammar, Appendix
 * Coulson, Teach Yourself Sanskrit, Appendix
 * Velankar, Jayadāman
 * E.W. Hopkins, The Great Epic of India, C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901, Ch. 4 (pp191-362 in the 1969 reprint, Punthi Pustak, Calcutta) LCCN
 * Amulyadhan Mukherji, Sanskrit prosody: its evolution, Calcutta, Saraswat Library, 1976. CATNYP

Chandovicitiḥ

 * attributed to Patanjali (what a mess!)
 * could be apocryphal(?)
 * mentioned in Rajasekhara, kavyamimamsa, link, Adhyaya 2 (search for kalpo finds it)
 * CATNYP Records
 * According to this catalog, Item 9, p.5, (site looks legit), this is part of the Nidana sutra. "Chandovicitiḥ, an ancillary work of Sāmaveda, is a part of Nidānasūtra attributed to Patanjali. The work elaborately deals with Vedic metres and their different varieties."

Articles

 * Steiner, Roland: "Die Lehre der Anuṣṭubh bei den indischen Metrikern." Suhṛllekāḥ. Festgabe für Helmut Eimer. (Indica et Tibetica 28). Eds. Hahn, Michael & Jens-Uwe Hartmann. Swisttal-Odendorf (1996), 227-248.
 * MacDonald, Anne: "Revisiting the Mūlamadhyamakakārika: Text-Critical Proposals and Problems." Indotetsugaku-Bukkyōgaku-Kenkyū 14 (2007), 25-55.

Metric restoration

 * Nooten/Holland text UTA site (Thomson/Slocum)


 * E.V. Arnold excerpt online PDF

Lists of meters
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The most exhaustive compilations, such as the modern ones by Patwardhan and Velankar, contain over 600 metres. This is a substantially larger repertoire than in any other metrical tradition.


 * E.V. Arnold, Vedic metre in its historical development, Cambridge, UP, 1905.


 * PDF


 * Recordings of recitation: H. V. Nagaraja Rao (ORI, Mysore), Ashwini Deo, Ram Karan Sharma


 * Sanskrit metre recognizer

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