anushtubh
अनुष्टुभ् anuṣṭubhThe metre of the epic shloka: four lines (padas) of eight syllables each.
Where this term appears
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
The names are set in the anushtubh metre, the plainest and oldest of Sanskrit measures, thirty-two syllables to a verse, four feet of eight.
- Keeping the Sound Treatise
The anushtubh has thirty-two, four padas of eight, and it is the metre that later hardened into the shloka , the standard verse of the epics.
- The First Poem Treatise
…hat Griffith and Dutt follow (1.2.14 in the critical edition), in the anushtubh metre, the four-line couplet that would go on to carry the Ramayana , most of the Mahabharata , and much of classical Sanskrit aft…