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Sanskrit is a language from the Indian sub-continent, spoken for over 3500years, and is the language of many of the main texts of Hinduism and Bud-dhism. Roughly 2500 years ago, one of the main branches of Sanskrit poetry(Chandras, or Vedic Sanskrit) used lines of poetry with a fixed syllable length.Sanskrit, however, has two different “lengths” of syllables; one short andone long (twice as long as a short syllable). So, if you had a 5-syllable lengthphrase, it could be composed of these syllables 8 ways:ˆ short-short-short-short-shortˆ short-short-short-longˆ short-short-long-shortˆ short-long-short-shortˆ long-short-short-shortˆ long-long-shortˆ long-short-longˆ short-long-long2.1. Make a table of the number of ways to choose long and short syllablesto compose line lengths from 3 to 7 syllables long. For example, there aretwo way to make a 2-syllable line: short-short and long.2.2. One of the most frequent line lengths was an 8-syllable length. List allways to combine short and long syllable to get an 8-syllable length. (Notethat one way would be long-long-long-long, and another would be long-short-long-short-long. Your answer should be between 30 and 40.)

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Sanskrit is a language from the Indian sub-continent, spoken for over 3500years, and is the language of many of the main texts of Hinduism and Bud-dhism. Roughly 2500 years ago, one of the main branches of Sanskrit poetry(Chandras, or Vedic Sanskrit) used lines of poetry with a fixed syllable length.Sanskrit, however, has two different “lengths” of syllables; one short andone long (twice as long as a short syllable). So, if you had a 5-syllable lengthphrase, it could be composed of these syllables 8 ways:ˆ short-short-short-short-shortˆ short-short-short-longˆ short-short-long-shortˆ short-long-short-shortˆ long-short-short-shortˆ long-long-shortˆ long-short-longˆ short-long-long2.1. Make a table of the number of ways to choose long and short syllablesto compose line lengths from 3 to 7 syllables long. For example, there aretwo way to make a 2-syllable line: short-short and long.2.2. One of the most frequent line lengths was an 8-syllable length. List allways to combine short and long syllable to get an 8-syllable length. (Notethat one way would be long-long-long-long, and another would be long-short-long-short-long. Your answer should be between 30 and 40.)

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2.1. Here's a table of the number of ways to choose long and short syllables to compose line lengths from

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