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R_1116_hamsapada

structural · concept: Haṁsapada · 2 attestation(s) · confidence 0.95

Haṁsapada is a bilingual song form: one foot in Sanskrit, one in a regional language, sung with rhyme (prāsa).

Body (pseudocode)

IF form == 'hamsapada': foot_1.language = 'sanskrit'; foot_2.language = 'regional'; require(rhyme == True)

Inputs / output

song_form —

→ form_structure

Evidence (2)

p. vol_II_p115 · #1362 « Where there is one foot in Saṁskṛta and the second (foot) is composed in a regional (language) »
p. vol_II_p115 · #1363 « which is sung with rhyme, that song is known as hamsapada. »

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