bārāmāsa

…many northern Indian languages: the barahmasa (“12 months”), in which, perhaps, 12 beauties of a girl or 12 attributes of a deity might be extolled by relating them to the characteristics of each month of the year; and the chautis (“34”), in which the 34 consonants of the northern Indian…

In Muslim India the barahmasa (“12 months”) is a sort of lovers’ calendar in which the poet, assuming the role of a young woman of longing, expresses the lover’s feelings in accord with the seasons of the year. Apart from these, later writers tried to develop strophic forms. Sometimes…