Enumeration techniques in Tamil metrical treatises (Studies in Tamil Metrics–3)

Sāptapadīnaṃ Sakhyam || A. 5.2.22 || 1. Introduction There is a lot of metrical variety among the Tamil language specimens that have been handed down to us by history, but the shortest way to mastering that complexity is not to confidently read Tamil metrical treatises, as if they contained the whole truth concerning Tamil literature, because those treatises are themselves incomplete attempts at capturing the ideal forms of Tamil literature which were meant as a help for those who had the des..