Need help with Shloka

[Anand Hudli]

 Sorry. I missed the shivottamaM due to oversight. The first line
 has 16 syllables too. That makes the verse an anushhTubh.

 Anand

>Namaste,
> How can the following have 12 aksharas ,when there are 16 ?
>1.shi 2.vam 3.shi 4.va 5.ka 6.ram 7.shaa 8.ntam 9.shi 10.vaa 11.tmaa
12.nam
>13.shi 14.vo 15.tta 16.mam
>
>So the first line of the shloka is
> shivam shivakaram shaantam shivaatmaanam shivottamam !
>
>Since this has 16 aksharas, it does conform to anushtup.
>is this right ?
>Raghavendra.
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>                || sarvE janaah sukhinO bhavantu ||
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>
>On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Anand Hudli wrote:
>
>>  Sadananda wrote:
>>
>> >>namaste Shree,
>> >>  This is what I came up with:
>> >>
>> >> shivaM shiva-karam.h sanaathaM shivaatmaanaM
>> >>shivottamam.h |
>> >> shiva-maarga praNe-dharaM praNa-Dho.asmi
>> >>sadaa-shivaM ||
>> >>
>> >>  As you can see, I had trouble with "saantham"
>> >>and came up with "sanaathaM" (having the Lord as
>> >>Protector). This is very beautiful. Thank you
>> >>for sharing this shloka with us.
>> >>
>> >>OM shaantiH, shaantiH, shaantiH
>> >>
>> >>dhanyavaadaH,
>> >>  Mantralaura
>> >
>> >The second line seems to follow the anushTup chandas, but there
seems
>> to be
>> >some problem with the first line meter.   Sanaathanam would go with
the
>> >second part of the first line. But that leaves two more words
missing
>> in
>> >the first half of the first line? Can any one check?
>> > I agree you cannot put Him inside a meter!
>>
>>  I can see that the second line has 16 syllables. But the first has
>>  12 syllables, assuming saantham is shaantaM.
>>  The second line should read (in my opinion):
>>
>>   shivamaarga-praNetaaraM praNato .asmi sadaashivaM |
>>
>>   I bow to Him who is the chief among those of the path of Shiva
>>   and who is Sadaashiva (eternally auspicious).
>>
>>  Anand
>>
>>
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