Alankar(Decor)-225

Oh Durga(Trishtubh) Tristubh trée-shtoobh (hymn, from the god of devas -shining ones or nature spirits and originating from the flesh ofPrajapati) is originally found in part of the Bhgavad Gita chapter 11 Verse 15 - 44 (including this phrase 'brighter than a thousand suns') and makes up about 40% of the meters in the Rig-Veda. Many of the The Veda meters are associated with body parts, the Tristubh is associated with the chest and arms. This ancient meter does appear in poetry centuries later connecting the content to the Vedic character of the verse. The Tristubh is: stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains,4 padas or lines. syllabic, of 11 syllables each. The heavy-light or guru-laghu pattern of the lines is language specific and probably impossible to duplicate in English. But for the purist you can try by converting heavy-light to Long-short vowel sounds. metric. The metric pattern would then be L or s L s L L - s s L s L L. (the first syllable may be either Long or short) Oh Durga Oh Durga, valour thine best may rise and fight vanquish evil, oh, Durga, scare it away May thine raged heart calm, may thine hands sow deep love Peace thence to spring upon the breast of this earth