4/4/2023 0 Comments Thakur bhim singh faag![]() ![]() I demonstrate that a majority of aperiodic meters are, in fact, surface instantiations of a small set of underlying quantity-based periodic templates and that aperiodicity emerges from the com-plex mappings of linguistic material to these templates. In this paper, I claim that in spite of apparent incommensurability, Sanskrit meters are based on the same principles of temporal organization as other versification traditions, and can be accounted for without significant alterations to existing assumptions about metrical structure. The repertoire of Classical Sanskrit verse meters is characterized by three features which contradict each of the above properties - (a) templates constituted by arbitrary syllable sequences without any overtly discernible periodic repetition: aperiodicity, (b) absolute faithfulness of linguistic material to a given metrical template: invariance, and (c) a vast number of templates, ranging between 600-700: rich repertoire. ![]() Such templates, constrained by periodicity and line length, are usually limited in number. ![]() In generative metrics, a meter is taken to be an abstract periodic template with a set of constraints mapping linguistic material onto it. ![]()
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