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 in each line. It was most efficiently employed by the great medieval Kannada poets such as Raghavanka, Kumaravyasa and Lakshmi
  1. Shara Shatpadi: None
  2. Kusuma Shatpadi: None
  3. Bhoga Shatpadi: Tirukana Kanasu by Shadaksharadeva
  4. Bhamini Shatpadi: Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari by Kumaravyasa, Prabhulingleele by Chamarasa, Torave Ramayana by Kumara Valmiki, Nalacharite by Kanakadasa
  5. Parivardhini Shatpadi: None
  6. Vardhaka Shatpadi: Harishchandra Kavya, Siddarama Charite and Somanatha Charite by Raghavanka, Jaimini Bharata by Lakshmisha and Bhavachintaratna by Gubbiya Mallanarya