Mattavilasini, Mattavilāsinī, Matta-vilasini: 4 definitions
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In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume II: Apabhramsa metres (1)Mattavilāsinī (मत्तविलासिनी) refers to a variety of Mātrā: the only metre consisting of five lines, as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Mātrā seems to be a very old Apabhraṃśa metre since it was known to Virahāṅka (see Vṛttajātisamuccaya) who describes four different varieties [...]. Hemacandra’s normal mātrā contains 16 mātrās in the odd lines and 12 mātrās in the even ones. He gives five more varieties [viz., Mattavilāsinī] derived from mātrā but does not reckon them as the divisions of it. The uneven lines of these contain 14, 16 or 17 mātrās, while the even ones have either 11, 12 or 13 mātrās.
Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMattavilāsinī (मत्तविलासिनी):—[=matta-vilāsinī] [from matta > mad] f. Name of a metre, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Vilasini, Matta, Vilacini.
Full-text: Matra.
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