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Discipline · in Prosody

The Sanskrit Metres

The Mine of Jewels of Prosody and the metres it catalogues by light and heavy syllables, as Tibetan scholars learned to hear and imitate them.

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Sanskrit verse weighs its syllables, light and heavy, and its metres are patterns of weight. Ratnākaraśānti’s treatise catalogues them, and Tibetan translators learned to reproduce their effect in a language that does not weigh syllables at all. The pages here will present the principal metres and the Tibetan solutions.