Sanskrit metres

Introduction

This is intended to be a website dealing with Sanskrit metres.

In its current state, this is all very raw; work in progress. Source code at https://github.com/shreevatsa/sanskrit/tree/metrical-scan

Metre identifier

Type a Sanskrit verse into the box below and click the button.
(The input can be in either Devanagari, IAST, Harvard-Kyoto, or ITRANS format.)

This is version 1g. Older versions are still available at

Metre statistics

Work in progress.

(There are many errors in the recognition below, mostly because of metrical errors in the GRETIL text. Most of the obscure metres in the table are not actually present in the texts: a verse in some other metre is getting recognized as such because of errors. Need to go through the texts and clean them up.)

Metre Amaruśataka Bhāravi: Kirātārjunīya Bhallaṭaśataka Bhartṛhari: Śatakatrakya Kālidāsa: Kumārasambhava Kālidāsa: Meghadūta Kālidāsa: Raghuvamśa Māgha: Śiśupālavadha Mahā-subhāṣita-saṅgraha Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita: Kaliviḍambana Rāmodantam
Anuṣṭup (Śloka) [2, 0.85%] [125, 12.02%] [8, 7.77%] [35, 10.80%] [157, 25.61%] [563, 34.35%] [231, 14.04%] [4475, 43.81%] [102, 100.00%] [216, 100.00%]
Śārdūlavikrīḍitam [136, 57.63%] [36, 34.95%] [103, 31.79%] [4, 0.24%] [1221, 11.95%]
Upajāti [132, 12.69%] [2, 1.94%] [14, 4.32%] [187, 30.51%] [463, 28.25%] [62, 3.77%] [472, 4.62%]
Vasantatilakā [14, 5.93%] [24, 2.31%] [23, 22.33%] [34, 10.49%] [4, 0.65%] [46, 2.81%] [88, 5.35%] [728, 7.13%]
Vaṃśastham/Indravaṃśā [4, 1.69%] [214, 20.58%] [3, 0.93%] [84, 13.70%] [74, 4.51%] [148, 9.00%] [197, 1.93%]
Āryā [2, 1.94%] [13, 4.01%] [687, 6.73%]
Rathoddhatā [38, 3.65%] [4, 3.88%] [3, 0.93%] [90, 14.68%] [150, 9.15%] [87, 5.29%] [100, 0.98%]
Śikhariṇī [24, 10.17%] [3, 0.29%] [10, 9.71%] [50, 15.43%] [1, 0.06%] [327, 3.20%]
Viyoginī [62, 5.96%] [2, 0.62%] [44, 7.18%] [96, 5.86%] [78, 4.74%] [92, 0.90%]
indravajrā [20, 1.92%] [1, 0.97%] [1, 0.31%] [30, 4.89%] [103, 6.28%] [24, 1.46%] [160, 1.57%]
Mālinī [4, 1.69%] [13, 1.25%] [11, 3.40%] [6, 0.98%] [13, 0.79%] [72, 4.38%] [209, 2.05%]
Mandākrāntā [8, 3.39%] [2, 1.94%] [8, 2.47%] [111, 100.00%] [7, 0.43%] [3, 0.18%] [162, 1.59%]
Drutavilambitam [4, 1.69%] [33, 3.17%] [7, 6.80%] [5, 1.54%] [65, 3.97%] [69, 4.19%] [106, 1.04%]
Svāgatā [77, 7.40%] [1, 0.06%] [91, 5.53%] [102, 1.00%]
Sragdharā [10, 4.24%] [2, 1.94%] [21, 6.48%] [1, 0.06%] [236, 2.31%]
Puṣpitāgrā [69, 6.63%] [1, 0.31%] [2, 0.33%] [4, 0.24%] [78, 4.74%] [107, 1.05%]
Aupacchandasikam (Vasantamālikā) (Upodgatā) [36, 3.46%] [3, 0.18%] [84, 5.11%] [69, 0.68%]
Praharṣiṇī [50, 4.81%] [8, 0.49%] [76, 4.62%] [42, 0.41%]
Pramitākṣarā [51, 4.90%] [81, 4.92%] [35, 0.34%]
Hariṇī [30, 12.71%] [3, 2.91%] [8, 2.47%] [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.06%] [105, 1.03%]
Udgatā [52, 5.00%] [1, 0.06%] [91, 5.53%] [1, 0.01%]
Gīti [1, 0.97%] [1, 0.31%] [137, 1.34%]
upendravajrā [24, 2.31%] [9, 1.47%] [29, 1.77%] [20, 1.22%] [49, 0.48%]
Śālinī [3, 0.29%] [3, 0.93%] [1, 0.06%] [81, 4.92%] [42, 0.41%]
unknown [2, 0.19%] [2, 0.12%] [13, 0.79%] [76, 0.74%]
Mañjubhāṣiṇī [1, 0.06%] [69, 4.19%] [15, 0.15%]
Pṛthvī [1, 0.97%] [5, 1.54%] [1, 0.06%] [72, 0.70%]
Rucirā (Prabhāvatī) [1, 0.06%] [68, 4.13%] [9, 0.09%]
Upagīti [53, 0.52%]
Udgīti [34, 0.33%]
Toṭakam [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.06%] [18, 0.18%]
Āryā (loose schema) [1, 0.10%] [1, 0.97%] [1, 0.06%] [5, 0.30%] [9, 0.09%]
dodhaka [2, 0.62%] [1, 0.06%] [7, 0.07%]
strī [2, 0.12%] [5, 0.05%]
Prabhā (Mandākinī) [6, 0.58%] [1, 0.06%]
Bhujaṅgaprayātam [6, 0.06%]
Aparavaktrā [1, 0.10%] [1, 0.06%] [4, 0.04%]
nārī [1, 0.06%] [4, 0.04%]
ketumatī [5, 0.05%]
vaiśvadevī [1, 0.06%] [4, 0.04%]
indravaṃśā [3, 0.18%] [1, 0.01%]
Kokilalam (Nardaṭakam) [3, 0.03%]
vaṃśapatrapatitam [1, 0.10%] [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.01%]
paṇava [3, 0.03%]
vātormī [3, 0.03%]
jaladharamālā [1, 0.10%] [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.01%]
Pañcacāmaram [3, 0.03%]
śrī [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.01%]
vasumatī [1, 0.31%] [1, 0.01%]
meghavisphurjita [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.01%]
kalahaṃsaḥ / nandinī [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.01%]
mṛgī [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.01%]
Aśvadhāṭī (Sitastavakaḥ) [2, 0.02%]
Sragviṇī [1, 0.06%] [1, 0.01%]
paṅkti [2, 0.02%]
mālatī [1, 0.01%]
madalekhā [1, 0.06%]
Madhyakṣāmā (Haṃsaśyenī, Kuṭila, Cūḍāpīḍam) [1, 0.10%]
Āryāgīti [1, 0.06%]
kalikā [1, 0.01%]
Kṣamā (Candrikā, Utpalinī) [1, 0.10%]
manoramā [1, 0.06%]
Madirā [1, 0.01%]
madraka [1, 0.01%]
vidyunmālā [1, 0.01%]
bhramaravilasitā [1, 0.06%]
bhujaṅgavijṛmbhita [1, 0.01%]
vegavatī1 [1, 0.01%]
upacitrā [1, 0.06%]

The most important Sanskrit metres

As evident from the tables above, a few Sanskrit metres account for most of the Sanskrit literature. (To be continued….)