Patti (Mahala 1)

Patti is a letter-based poetic form. The tradition of composing poetry according to the order of a script’s alphabet is ancient. There is even a reference to a composition in this poetic form in Hebrew. Examples of some poetic forms based on the alphabetical order of scripts from different languages ​​are as follows: - In Sanskrit, based on a single letter of the Devanagari script: Ekakshari. - Based on the thirty-four characters of the Sidh Matrika script: Chauntisi (poetry of the ear-pierced Nath yogis). - In Hindi, based on the fifty-two letters of the Devanagari script: Bavan-Akhari. - Based on the thirty letters of the Persian-Arabic script: Siharfi. In Panjabi, alphabet-based poetic forms such as Siharfi, Chauntisa, and Bawan-Akhari ...