Tripadi

Tripadi

Tripadi or Trivadi (Kannada, Sanskrit lit. "tri": three, "pad" or "adi": feet) is a metre in the Kannada language dating back to c. 700 CE.

Definition

The "tripadi" consists of three lines, each differing from the others in the number of feet and moras (Sanskrit "matras"), | overbrace{--smile}^{mathrm{Foot 2 star overbrace{smilesmile-smile}^{mathrm{Foot 3 | overbrace{-smile-}^{mathrm{Foot 4 (Line 1: 20 moras in 4 feet)

overbrace{smile smile smilesmile}^{mathrm{Foot 5 | overbrace{underbrace{-smile}_{mathrm{Brahma}^{mathrm{Foot VI | overbrace{smilesmile-smile}^{mathrm{Foot 7 | overbrace{-smilesmilesmile}^{mathrm{Foot 8 (Line 2: 17 moras in 4 feet)

overbrace{smile smile -smile}^{mathrm{Foot 9 | overbrace{underbrace{-smile}_{mathrm{Brahma}^{mathrm{Foot X | overbrace{smilesmilesmile-}^{mathrm{Foot 11 || (Line 3: 13 moras in 3 feet)

Example

A well-known example of the "tripadi" is the third stanza in the inscription of Kappe Arabhatta (here the symbol | denotes the end of a line, and ||, the end of the tripadi):

Notes

References

*Harvard reference | last = Kittel | first = Ferdinand | authorlink = Ferdinand Kittel | title = Nāgavarma's Canarese Prosody | year = 1875 | publisher = Mangalore: Basel Mission Book and Tract Depository. Pp. 104. (Reprinted, (1988) New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. Pp. 160)|isbn = 8120603672 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=75FVAV4ge6EC
*Harvard reference| last = Narasimhia | first = A. N. | title = A Grammar of the Oldest Kanarese Inscriptions (including a study of the Sanskrit and Prakrit loan words | year = 1941 | publisher = Originally published: Mysore: University of Mysore. Pp. 375. Reprinted in 2007: Read Books. Pp. 416 |isbn = 1406765686 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=LvkODkXF2-AC&dq

ee also

*Kannada language
*Kannada literature


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