This article is about poetic mantra in the Vedas. For metre in Sanskrit poetry, see Sanskrit prosody. For the Kannada and Telugu poetry, see Chandas (poetry). For the quatrain poetic form of North India and Pakistan, see Chhand. For the computer typeface, see Chandas (typeface). For other uses, see Chanda (disambiguation).
Vedic metre refers to the poetic metre in the Vedic literature. The study of Vedic metre, along with post-Vedic metre, is part of Chandas, one of the six Vedanga disciplines.[1]
^James Lochtefeld (2002), "Chandas" in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 1: A-M, Rosen Publishing, ISBN0-8239-2287-1, page 140