Ragale (Kannada:
ರಗಳೆ ) is a type of meter in
Kannada prosody that is used in
Kannada poetry
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.
This meter can usually have as many
padas of syllables divided into two groups of various fixed number of
matra
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in each line. It is the most prevalent meter of the
Old Kannada
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poets Harihara and
Raghavanka
Raghavanka ( kn, ರಾಘವಾಂಕ) was a noted Kannada writer and a poet in the Hoysala court who flourished in the late 12th to early 13th century. Raghavanka is credited for popularizing the use of the native '' shatpadi'' metre (hexa m ...
.
[Prof. T. V. Venkatachala Shastri, Kannada Chandaswaroopa, DVK Murthy Publication, Mysore 3rd Edition 2008 p.267-315]
Lalita Ragale, Mandānila Ragale, Utsāha Ragale are variations we see in the use of Ragale meter.
Lalita Ragale
In this variation of Ragale meter, each
pada has four, syllable groups (
Gana
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). Each syllable group has five
matra
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(time units).
Mandanila Ragale
In this variation of Ragale meter, each pada has four, syllable groups (Gana). Each syllable group has four matra (time units).
Utsaaha Ragale
In this variation of Ragale meter, each pada has four, syllable groups (Gana). Each syllable group has three matra (time units).
Sarala Ragale
Sarala Ragale is the modern version where the rules are flexible and it does not strictly adhere to any of the ragale forms enlisted above but largely retains the Ragale form.
Mahachandssu used by
Kuvempu is a variation of Sarala Ragale.
See also
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Anapaest
An anapaest (; also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one; in accentual stress meters it consist ...
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Dactyl
Dactyl may refer to:
* Dactyl (mythology), a legendary being
* Dactyl (poetry), a metrical unit of verse
* Dactyl Foundation, an arts organization
* Finger, a part of the hand
* Dactylus, part of a decapod crustacean
* "-dactyl", a suffix used ...
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Systems of scansion
Scansion ( , rhymes with ''mansion''; verb: ''to scan''), or a system of scansion, is the method or practice of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are ...
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Trochee
In English poetic metre and modern linguistics, a trochee () is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. But in Latin and Ancient Greek poetic metre, a trochee is a heavy syllable followed by a light one ( ...
Notes
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References
Poetic forms
Literature of Karnataka
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