Explore the Craft of Writing Poetry Indian Poetry Vedic Verse
Jagati (the god of nature and animals), in Hindu tradition Jagati is associated with the 4th horse harnessed to the golden chariot of the sun. This Vedicverse is a stanzaic form with a lot of room to maneuver and is often thematically associated with the body parts of hips, belly and penis also linked to the "bones of the Lord of the living entities", whatever that means.
The elements of the Jagati are:
stanzaic, 4 lines or padas
syllabic, lines of 12 syllables each.
metric. The heavy-light or guru-laghu