This is intended to be a website dealing with Sanskrit metres.
In its current state, this is all very raw; work in progress. Source code at https://github.com/shreevatsa/sanskrit/tree/metrical-scan
Type a Sanskrit verse into the box below and click the button.
(The input can be in either Devanagari, IAST, Harvard-Kyoto, or ITRANS format.)
Work in progress. The "unknown" metres below are either because of incompleteness in our metrical data, or because of metrical errors in the GRETIL text.
Metre | Amaruśataka | Bhāravi: Kirātārjunīya | Bhallaṭaśataka | Bhartṛhari: Śatakatrakya | Kālidāsa: Kumārasambhava | Kālidāsa: Raghuvamśa | Māgha: Śiśupālavadha | Meghadūta | Mahā-subhāṣita-saṅgraha | Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita: Kaliviḍambana | Rāmodantam |
Anuṣṭup (Śloka) | [2, 0.85%] | [125, 12.02%] | [8, 7.77%] | [35, 10.80%] | [157, 25.61%] | [563, 34.37%] | [220, 13.37%] | [4363, 42.80%] | [102, 100.00%] | [216, 100.00%] | |
Upajāti | [176, 16.92%] | [3, 2.91%] | [15, 4.63%] | [226, 36.87%] | [592, 36.14%] | [95, 5.78%] | [645, 6.33%] | ||||
Śārdūlavikrīḍitam | [136, 57.63%] | [36, 34.95%] | [104, 32.10%] | [4, 0.24%] | [1192, 11.69%] | ||||||
Vasantatilakā | [14, 5.93%] | [24, 2.31%] | [24, 23.30%] | [34, 10.49%] | [4, 0.65%] | [45, 2.75%] | [78, 4.74%] | [710, 6.96%] | |||
unknown | [1, 0.97%] | [15, 0.92%] | [143, 8.69%] | [626, 6.14%] | |||||||
Āryā (matched from regex) | [2, 1.94%] | [680, 6.67%] | |||||||||
Vaṃśastham (Vaṃśasthavila) | [4, 1.69%] | [213, 20.48%] | [3, 0.93%] | [83, 13.54%] | [73, 4.46%] | [70, 4.26%] | [181, 1.78%] | ||||
Rathoddhatā | [38, 3.65%] | [4, 3.88%] | [3, 0.93%] | [90, 14.68%] | [148, 9.04%] | [86, 5.23%] | [95, 0.93%] | ||||
Śikhariṇī | [24, 10.17%] | [3, 0.29%] | [10, 9.71%] | [50, 15.43%] | [321, 3.15%] | ||||||
Viyoginī | [62, 5.96%] | [2, 0.62%] | [44, 7.18%] | [97, 5.92%] | [78, 4.74%] | [86, 0.84%] | |||||
Mālinī | [4, 1.69%] | [13, 1.25%] | [11, 3.40%] | [6, 0.98%] | [13, 0.79%] | [72, 4.38%] | [208, 2.04%] | ||||
Mandākrāntā | [8, 3.39%] | [2, 1.94%] | [8, 2.47%] | [7, 0.43%] | [2, 0.12%] | [122, 100.00%] | [159, 1.56%] | ||||
Drutavilambitam | [4, 1.69%] | [33, 3.17%] | [7, 6.80%] | [5, 1.54%] | [64, 3.91%] | [66, 4.01%] | [106, 1.04%] | ||||
Sragdharā | [10, 4.24%] | [2, 1.94%] | [21, 6.48%] | [1, 0.06%] | [226, 2.22%] | ||||||
Svāgatā | [77, 7.40%] | [1, 0.06%] | [85, 5.17%] | [96, 0.94%] | |||||||
Puṣpitāgrā | [69, 6.63%] | [1, 0.31%] | [2, 0.33%] | [4, 0.24%] | [76, 4.62%] | [102, 1.00%] | |||||
Aupacchandasikam (Vasantamālikā) (Upodgatā) | [36, 3.46%] | [2, 0.12%] | [79, 4.80%] | [67, 0.66%] | |||||||
Praharṣiṇī | [50, 4.81%] | [8, 0.49%] | [70, 4.26%] | [41, 0.40%] | |||||||
Pramitākṣarā | [51, 4.90%] | [79, 4.80%] | [34, 0.33%] | ||||||||
Udgatā | [53, 5.10%] | [94, 5.71%] | [1, 0.01%] | ||||||||
Hariṇī | [30, 12.71%] | [3, 2.91%] | [8, 2.47%] | [1, 0.06%] | [1, 0.06%] | [105, 1.03%] | |||||
Śālinī | [3, 0.29%] | [3, 0.93%] | [1, 0.06%] | [78, 4.74%] | [37, 0.36%] | ||||||
Mañjubhāṣiṇī | [1, 0.06%] | [69, 4.19%] | [15, 0.15%] | ||||||||
Pṛthvī | [1, 0.97%] | [5, 1.54%] | [1, 0.06%] | [70, 0.69%] | |||||||
Rucirā (Prabhāvatī) | [1, 0.06%] | [68, 4.13%] | [7, 0.07%] | ||||||||
Śiśirā (Upajāti of Vaṃśastham and Indravaṃśā) | [20, 1.22%] | ||||||||||
Āryā | [13, 4.01%] | [4, 0.04%] | |||||||||
Dodhakam | [2, 0.62%] | [1, 0.06%] | [6, 0.06%] | ||||||||
Prabhā (Mandākinī) | [6, 0.58%] | [1, 0.06%] | |||||||||
Aparavaktrā | [1, 0.10%] | [4, 0.04%] | |||||||||
Matta-mayūram | [1, 0.10%] | [1, 0.06%] | [2, 0.12%] | ||||||||
Jaloddhatagatiḥ | [1, 0.10%] | [1, 0.06%] | [1, 0.01%] | ||||||||
Vaṃśapatrapatitam (Vaṃśadala) | [1, 0.10%] | [1, 0.06%] | [1, 0.01%] | ||||||||
Jaladharamālā | [1, 0.10%] | [1, 0.06%] | [1, 0.01%] | ||||||||
Indravaṃśā | [2, 0.12%] | [1, 0.01%] | |||||||||
Nārācam | [1, 0.06%] | [1, 0.06%] | |||||||||
Vaidhātrī (Upajāti of Vaṃśastham and Indravaṃśā) | [1, 0.16%] | [1, 0.01%] | |||||||||
Gīti | [1, 0.31%] | ||||||||||
Manahāsā (Upajāti of Vaṃśastham and Indravaṃśā) | [1, 0.01%] | ||||||||||
Madhyakṣāmā (Haṃsaśyenī, Kuṭila, Cūḍāpīḍam) | [1, 0.10%] | ||||||||||
Kṣamā (Candrikā, Utpalinī) | [1, 0.10%] | ||||||||||
Vāsantikā (Upajāti of Vaṃśastham and Indravaṃśā) | [1, 0.01%] | ||||||||||
Śīlāturā (Upajāti of Vaṃśastham and Indravaṃśā) | [1, 0.10%] | ||||||||||
Ramaṇā (Upajāti of Vaṃśastham and Indravaṃśā) | [1, 0.01%] |
As evident from the tables above, a few Sanskrit metres account for most of the Sanskrit literature. (To be continued….)