ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>A&#7778&#7788PAD&#298</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="AblPAD*"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279A&#7778&#7788PAD&#298, from Sanskrit <i>a&#7779&#7789&#257pada, a&#7779&#7789&#257pad</i> or <i>a&#7779&#7789&#257pad&#299</i> is a poetic composition comprising <i>a&#7779&#7789</i> or eight <i>pad&#257s</i> or stanzas. No specific rhyme-scheme, measure or burden is prescribed for it, but all the eight stanzas must be in the same metre and measure. Lines in each stanza are generally rhymed.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In Sikh Scripture, the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, there are<i>a&#7779&#7789pad&#299s</i>composed in different musical measures <i>(r&#257gas)</i> and metres. For instance, Gur&#363 N&#257nak has written <i>a&#7779&#7789pad&#299s</i>in <i>r&#257gas</i> Gau&#7771&#299 and M&#257r&#363; those under measure Gau&#7771&#299 are in Chaupa&#299 metre and those under M&#257r&#363 in Nish&#257n&#299 metre. All the twenty-four <i>a&#7779&#7789pad&#299s</i> which constitute Gur&#363 Arjan's <i>Sukhman&#299</i> are in Chaupa&#299 metre and Gau&#7771&#299 <i>r&#257ga</i>. Although each of the eight stanzas in an <i>a&#7779&#7789pad&#299</i> of <i>Sukhman&#299</i> comprises ten verses, the number of verses in a stanza elsewhere in the Scripture is restricted from two to four lines.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> K&#257hn Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Guruchhand Div&#257kar</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Charan Si&#7749gh, <i>Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Granth B&#257&#7751&#299 Beur&#257</i>. Amritsar, 1860<BR> <li class="C1"> Kohl&#299, Surindar Si&#7749gh, ed. , <i>Pañj&#257b&#299 S&#257hit Kosh</i>. Chandigarh, 1972<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Major Gurmukh Si&#7749gh (Retd.)<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>