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Milestone · Level 4
The Poet's Room · कविसभा
A verse you have not met, in a meter you now know by ear. Weigh every syllable of it by hand. Say all four lines aloud. Then write one line of your own that scans.
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One · weigh all fourteen syllables
Kanakadhārā Stotram, second verse — vasantatilakā. Hear it, then tap each syllable: once for light ⏑, twice for heavy –.
Heavy if the vowel is long, or if a consonant cluster or ṃ / ḥ closes it. Nothing is graded — a wrong one just turns amber and waits.
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– – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – –
That is vasantatilakā, every time, in all four lines and in all eighteen verses of the stotram. You did it without being told the pattern — which means the meter is in your ear, not on a page.
Two · all four lines, aloud, in meter
Śaṅkara watching a garland of glances go back and forth to Murāri's face, and asking Lakṣmī for her favour. Hold the heavy syllables twice as long as the light ones.
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Said aloud: {{ saidCount }} of four
Three · one line of your own that scans
An odd pāda of anuṣṭubh: eight syllables, and the fifth light, the sixth and seventh heavy. Tap words in, tap them out again.
syllables
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syllables 5·6·7
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want ⏑ – –
Your line scans.
Eight syllables, and the cadence falls exactly where the meter wants it. Say it aloud once, then keep it.
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The word bank
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Level 4 · Poetry & Ornament — complete
You have written a line in meter
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hears four meters apart, weighs a verse syllable by syllable, spots an ornament in the original, and composes a pāda that scans.
Your own line
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Finish the three and the room is yours. {{ doneCount }} of 3 done so far.
Nothing here is timed and nothing is graded. Say the lines out loud. ॐ