Dear Florent,

> If I understand well the explanations Mahinda gave previously on
> metrics a long uu is equivalent to the syllable ta.m, and they in

both

> cases fit the meter which has eleven syllables (tu.t.thubbha.m). I
> have been trying to find out which variety of meter it is by looking
> at the lengths of the syllables, remembering that a, i or u followed
> by a consonant is prosodially long and a vowel followed by .m is

also

> long. Here is what I found out:
>
> LLS LLS SLS LS
> LLS LLS SLL LL
> LLS LLS SLS LS
> SLS LLS SLS LS

I think SLL on the second line should be SLS.

> Could you please confirm if this is right? It doesn't seem to fit
> though any of the 11 varieties given for the tu.t.thubbha.m meter

p335

> of Duroiselle's grammar. Where did I do a mistake?

I checked a translation (which includes tables) of the standard
Vuttodaya text on Pali metrics and I think I have identified the metre
as a variety of upajaati, one of the 11 varieties of the tu.t.thubbha
metre that are listed. Upajaati is a mixture of the indavajiraa and
upendavajiraa metres and one of its 14 varieties is as follows:

LLS LLS SLS LL indavajiraa
LLS LLS SLS LL indavajiraa
LLS LLS SLS LL indavajiraa
SLS LLS SLS LL upendavajiraa

I think the last syllable of each line can be either short or long.
The example given in the translation had short final syllables at the
end of three of the four lines.

Regards,
Jim