Software for Chandas

Courtesy; Sri. Arvind & lalitAlAlitaH

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I discovered by chance that the site  

http://sanskrit.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/Chanda/

    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.

  > 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 <http://bit.ly/kG5XaY>. You don't need to go for la and gU. Just put whole shloka in Kyoto-Harvard System as shown on this page<http://bit.ly/mGackT>.   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<http://sanskrit.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/Chanda/HTML/v_vasantatilakA_0.html>   [ वसन्ततिलका<http://sanskrit.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/Chanda/HTML/v_vasantatilakA_0.html> Hope it helps.

knr
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