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Articles about Indian Prosody
Table of Contents
Summaries
A.L. Basham on Indian Prosody Html PDF
A.A. Macdonell on Vedic Metre Html PDF
A.K. Warder on Pàli Metre Html PDF
Charles Duroiselle on Medieval Pali Prosody Html PDF
A.A. Macdonell on Metre in Classical Sanskrit Html PDF
M. Winternitz on Indian Prosodic Literature Html PDF
Monographs
E.V. Arnold extract from Vedic Metre in its Historical Development Html PDF
A. B. Keith on The Metre Of The BÔhaddevatà Html PDF
J.H. Moore giving a Metrical Analysis of the Pàli Iti-vuttaka Html PDF
Editor's Preface
The documents in this section have been prepared to give a broad overview of Indian Prosody as it has developed through the ages; and to provide bibliographical information that may be useful to the student. Most of the documents consist of Appendices to other works, or small sections within a larger work, some of which are hard to find, and so it seemed useful to gather them together here. I hope to add more articles to this section as and when possible.
I have generally reformatted the documents to make them more readable, added in the metrical markings wherever necessary, and annotated the documents whenever it would help to clarify the text. Occasionally I have corrected the English, especially in Indian works on the subject. All such additions and corrections are placed in square brackets.
ânandajoti Bhikkhu
December 2005