Handling of sh, l̥, ḷ, ṁ

[AravindSureshThakidayil]

I have an issue to report about the results for the following input:

sindūrāruṇa vigrahāṁ trinayanām mānikyamaulīsphurat
tāranāyaka shekharāṁ smitamukhīṁ āpīna vakṣōruhāṁ
pāṇibhyāṁal̥ipūrṇa ratnacaṣakaṁ raktōtpalaṁ bibhratīṁ
soumyāṁ ratna ghaṭasta rakta caraṇāṁ dhyāyēt parāṁ ambikāṁ

The issue is:

The output is śārdūlavikrīditam, but I believe the correct chandah for this verse is anuṣṭup.

[Please input the issue here]

[shreevatsa]

Thanks for trying out the tool, and taking the time to report feedback. There are a bunch of bugs, please continue to report issues as you see them.

In this specific case though, there doesn't seem to be a bug (though the recognition of input like "sh" and "l̥/ḷ" and ṁ clearly needs to be improved, so thanks for this report): the metre in this case is indeed śārdūlavikrīḍitam (a metre where each verse has 68=19×4 syllables in a specific pattern). Could you say why you you think it should have said anuṣṭup (a smaller metre where each verse has 32=8×4 syllables)? It may give some ideas for improving the output...

[AravindSureshThakidayil]

Srivatsa, forgive me if I have made a mistake here 🙇🏼‍♂️. I am no scholar: I am not even a good student. I assumed this to be anuṣṭup because this is the dhyāna śloka (?) to the lal̥itā sahasranāmastōtram, which is famously known to be in anuṣṭup chandah.

[shreevatsa]

Ah I see. Yes the bulk of the Lalita Sahasra-nama-stotra is in Anushtubh (those shorter verses…) but the dhyāna section has a few stanzas in different metres. If you paste the following text exactly (spaces and || are significant unfortunately; it's still very buggy) at http://sanskritmetres.appspot.com/fulltext you should be able to get an idea:

sindūrāruṇa-vigrahāṃ trinayanāṃ māṇikyamauli-sphurat	
tārā-nāyaka-śekharāṃ smita-mukhīṃ āpīna-vakṣoruhām	
pāṇibhyāṃ-ali-pūrṇa-ratna-caṣakaṃ raktotpalaṃ -bibhratīṃ	
saumyāṃ ratna-ghaṭastha-raktacaraṇāṃ dhyāyet-parāmambikām ||
	
aruṇāṃ karuṇā-taraṅgitākṣīṃ dhṛta-pāśāṅkuśa-puṣpa-bāṇa-cāpām 
aṇimādibhir-āvṛtāṃ mayūkhair-ahamityeva-vibhāvaye-bhavānīm	||

dhyāyet padmāsanasthāṃ vikasitavadanāṃ padmapatrāyatākṣīṃ	
hemābhāṃ pītavastrāṃ karakalitalasad hemapadmāṃ varāṅgīm	|
sarvālaṅkāra yuktāṃ satatam abhayadāṃ bhaktanamrāṃ bhavānīṃ	
śrīvidyāṃ śānta mūrtiṃ sakala suranutāṃ sarva sampat pradātrīm	||

sakuṅkuma vilepanām alikacumbi kastūrikāṃ	
samanda hasitekṣaṇāṃ saśara cāpa pāśāṅkuśām	
aśeṣajana mohinīṃ aruṇa mālya bhūṣāmbarāṃ	
japākusuma bhāsurāṃ japavidhau smared ambikām	||

śrīmātā śrīmahārājñī śrīmat-siṃhāsaneśvarī 
cidagni-kuṇḍa-sambhūtā devakārya-samudyatā ||

udyadbhānu-sahasrābhā caturbāhu-samanvitā
rāgasvarūpa-pāśāḍhyā krodhākārāṅkuśojjvalā ||

manorūpekṣu-kodaṇḍā pañcatanmātra-sāyakā 
nijāruṇa-prabhāpūra-majjadbrahmāṇḍa-maṇḍalā ||

(I got this text from here and massaged it a bit…)

In the meantime, this report does tell me about some other issues to fix, so I'll keep this open under a different title… thanks for reporting!