Dear Nina and friends,

allow me to include the following:

Each gaathaa consists of four verses, each quarter may also be known
as a paada. Hence, there are four paadas in a gaathaa.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

626. Prosody is that part of Grammar which treats of the laws of
versification.

* A paada is the fourth part of a stanza, called also a quarter verse.

<YP> More definitions: gaathaa = stanza, paada = last quarter portion
of a stanza, va.n.na = a syllable in a paada.