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• Tristubh — is the name of a Vedic meter of 44 syllables (four padas of eleven syllables each), or any hymn composed in this meter. It is the most prevalent meter of the Rigveda, accounting for roughly 40% of its verses.The tristubh pada contains a break or… …   Wikipedia

• Vedic meter — For the quatrain poetic form of North India and Pakistan, see Chhand (poetry). See Sanskrit meter for meter in Classical Sanskrit poetry. Chandas redirects here. See Chandas (font) for the computer typeface. Part of a series on …   Wikipedia

• Meter (poetry) — In poetry, meter (metre in British English) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. The study of… …   Wikipedia

• Vedi (altar) — Vedi is the term for sacrificial altar in the Vedic religion. Such altars were an elevated enclosure, generally strewed with Kusha grass, and having receptacles for the sacrificial fire; it was of various shapes, but usually narrow in the… …   Wikipedia

• List of poems — This is a list of poems that have a page about them in Wikipedia.A* Absalom and Achitophel John Dryden (1681, continuation attrib. to Nahum Tate) * Aeneid Virgil (1st century BC) * The Age of Anxiety W. H. Auden (1948) * The Rime of the Ancient… …   Wikipedia

• Gathas — The word Gātha means a hymn of praise in the earliest Indo Iranian poetry. In the Vedas, this word is found repeated several times referring to the vedic hymns [Rigveda 1.167, Samaveda 9.11, Taittiriya Brahmana Shatapatha Brahmana] .In… …   Wikipedia

• Purusha sukta — ( IAST|puruṣa sūkta ) is hymn 10.90 of the Rigveda, dedicated to Purusha, the cosmic man . It has 16 verses, 15 in the IAST|anuṣṭubh meter, and the final one in the IAST|triṣṭubh meter. It is the only Rigvedic hymn dedicated to Purusha, and thus …   Wikipedia

• trishtubh — var. tristubh …   Useful english dictionary