RULE id: haṁsapada (1116) SOURCE: brihaddesi_sharma_1992 (vol_II_p115) SCOPE: technical_term family, Brihaddesi (Mātaṅga ~750 CE) CONCEPT: Haṁsapada STATUS: empirical ASSERTIONS: - [structural] Haṁsapada has a bilingual structure with one foot in Sanskrit and one in a regional language -- p.vol_II_p115 "Where there is one foot in Sainskṛta and the second (foot) is composed in a regional (language)" - [structural] Haṁsapada is characterized by the presence of rhyme (prasā) -- p.vol_II_p115 "which is sung with rhyme, that song is known as hamsapada." CITED_RULES: - sainskṛta (structural) CONFIDENCE: empirical PROTECT: false