Chaubola ( Hindustani: चौबोला or چوبولا) is a quatrain

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in the poetry of

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and

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, often employed in folk songs.

Example

In one sequence in the

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'', Indra, the king of the gods, enters his court and announces in a ''chaubola'' -

References

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