chaupai
चौपाई caupāīA quatrain: a verse of four rhyming lines, the metre that carries the body of the Hanuman Chalisa (chalisa = forty chaupais).
Where this term appears
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
Then come the forty chaupais , the quatrains that give the hymn its name and carry its whole argument.
- Does the Hanuman Chalisa give the distance to the sun? Journal
…he Chalisa is forty-three verses long, two opening couplets and forty chaupais and a closing couplet, written in the language people actually spoke, by a poet who wanted a farmer to be able to carry it.
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
The four lines from the *Rāmcaritmānas* quoted everywhere as the charter of *śābara* mantras are, in their own setting, a poet's argument for his own book. They…