An Outline of the Metres in the Pāḷi Canon

An Outline of the Metres in the Pāḷi Canon - 49
chandas
1) prosody, metre
2) sometimes is used loosely to indicate merely the number of
syllables in a line
cheda, pause, see also yati
closed syllable see 1.1
conjunct consonants
two (or more) consonants which are not separated by a vowel e.g. -ttin
mettā, -ndr- in indriya
contraction
change from original two short vowels (usually separated by a
semivowel) to one long one e.g. aya > e, ava > o. This sometimes
makes sense of otherwise metrically ‘wrong’ verses.
Dodhaka 2.21
dīgha (dīrgha)
used to refer to a naturally long vowel, not to be confused with garu
(heavy) which refers to metrical weight
digraphs
two letters that indicate but one sound, see 1.2
elision
the loss of a syllable, or part of a syllable, at the beginning or end of
a word (which sometimes happens m.c.)
epenthesis
the insertion of a vowel between two consonants for euphonic
reasons, see sarabhatti
euphony
ease of pronounciation, see also sandhi