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Shatpadi


Shatpadi ( Shatpadi) is a native meter in Kannada prosody that has been used extensively in Kannada poetry. It meter can usually have six padas of syllables, divided into groups of various fixed number of matra (beats) in each line. It was most efficiently employed by the great medieval Kannada poets such as Raghavanka, Kumaravyasa and Lakshmisha. There are six types of Shatpadi verses found in numerous Kannada language inscriptions and poems. However, only three of these meters were used to compose the Kannada epics (mahakavya).


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