anuṣṭubh

1 A measure of verse, the stanza consisting four lines of eight syllables each, or three lines of eight, twelve, and twelve, making, in either case, thirty-two.

2 A name of SARASVATI.

E. anu, and ṣṭubh to stop, kvip aff.

Sarasvatī. ³ The name of a class of metres which consists

of 32 syllables and, in the Vedas, is regulated by the number

of syllables only, in classical poetry by number and quantity.

In the Vedas the 32 syllables are distributed either in Te-

trastichs of 8 syllables in each line, or in Triplets of either

12 + 8 + 12 or 12 + 12 + 8 or 8 + 12 + 12 syllables. For the

varieties of the Anuṣṭubh in the classical poetry see citra-

padā, vidyunmālā, māṇavaka or māṇavakākrīḍā, haṃsaruta, pramā-

ṇikā or nagasvarūpiṇī or matallikā, samānikā or mallikā,

vitāna, tuṅgā, kamala, haṃsapadī, mātaṅgī, rambhā and the metre

which is most in use but the quantity of which is not so in-

variable as that of the named varieties viz. the śloka. In a

vaidik hymn the Anuṣṭubh is represented as one of the

primitive creations, that originated together with the moon;

according to some Purāṇas it was created from the northern

mouth of the four-headed Brahman (m.) together with the

Atharvaveda, a portion of the Sāmaveda and some hymns

as well as the Āptoryāma portion of the Jyotiṣṭoma sacri-

fice; accord. to another Purāṇa from the tendons of Brahman.

(The Kāsikā considers the vaidik anuṣṭyā equivalent to the

classical instrum. anuṣṭubhā; but anuṣṭyā is probably an er-

roneous reading for anuṣṭyā q. v.) E. stubh with anu, kṛt

aff. kvip, so called according to the Nirukta ‘because it

follows in praise (anuṣṭobhati) with its fourth Pāda the Gā-

yatrī metre which consists only of three Pādas or stanzas’.

f. (-ṣṭup)

1. A measure of verse, the stanza consisting four lines
of eight syllables each, or three lines of eight, twelve, and twelve,
making, in either case, thirty-two.

2. A name of SARASWATI.

E.
anu, and ṣṭubh to stop, kvip aff.

1) lauter Anruf(?): ànùṣṭùbhàmanû carcū̀rya mā̂ṇā̀mandràṃ ni cîkyuḥ kàvayô manī̀ṣāḥ ṚV. 10, 124, 9. Rede NAIGH. 1, 11. TRIK. 3, 3, 283. MED. bh. 24. ŚABDAR. im ŚKDR.

— 2) N. eines in seiner Grundform aus vier achtsilbigen Pāda's bestehenden Versmaasses, das nachmals in den Śloka übergegangen ist. dvātriṃśadakṣarānuṣṭupcatvāro 'ṣṭākṣarāḥ samāḥ ṚV. PRĀT. 16, 27. ṚV. 10, 130, 4. VS. 8, 47. 10, 13. AV. 8, 9, 14. 20. ŚAT. BR. 3, 1, 4, 2. 21. 14, 8, 15, 8. (= BṚH. ĀR. UP. 5, 14, 5.) anuṣṭupsaṃpád 7, 1, 2, 15. In der späteren Metrik umfasst Anuṣṭubh eine ganze Klasse von Metren, die aus 4 x 8 Silben bestehen, COLEBR. Misc. Ess. II, 152. 159. TRIK. 3, 3, 283. MED. bh. 24. ist aus Brahma's nördlichem Munde entstanden VP. 42.

3) Bez. der Zahl acht Ind. St. 8, 167.

— Vgl. ānuṣṭubha .

-úbham {950,9}.

-úbhā 2) {956,4}.

— 1) Adj. nachjauchzend ṚV. 10,124,9.

— 2) f.

— a) Lobgesang.

— b) *Rede.

— c) ein Metrum von 4x8 Silben.

— d) Bez. der Zahl acht.