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पद

Pada

The devotional lyric of the bhakti poets.

A pada is a short song, often set to a raga, that circles one feeling or one scene and returns to a refrain. Surdas, Mirabai and Kabir gave it its great voices, and it is still where much of Hindi devotional poetry lives.

Poems
542
Poets
10
Typical read
0.3 min
Common mood
Shringara

Featured verse

सोइ रसना जो हरिगुन गावै। नैननि की छवि यहै चतुरता जो मुकुंद मकरंदहिं धावै॥

Shree Sheshashai

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गीत

Poems meant to be sung.

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ग़ज़ल

Couplets that stand alone, tied by a refrain.