Sanskrit metres

Introduction

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/

Metre identifier

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.)
For now, you can use this tool I wrote many years ago, or “Sanscript”, to verify your transliteration. (Will soon add transliteration to this page itself…)

The most important Sanskrit metres

As evident from the tables here, a few Sanskrit metres account for most of the Sanskrit literature. (To be continued….)