Alternative spellings of this word include Panchachamara.

In Hinduism

Vastushastra (architecture)

Source: Wisdom Library: Vāstu-śāstra

Pañcacāmara (पञ्चचामर) refers to a type of temple (prāsāda) classified, according to Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra chapter 57. The temple is mentioned as one of the twenty temples being a favorite of Viṣṇu. The Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra is an 11th-century encyclopedia dealing with various topics from the Vāstuśāstra.

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Vastushastra (वास्तुशास्त्र, vāstuśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science (shastra) of architecture (vastu), dealing with topics such architecture, sculpture, town-building, fort building and various other constructions. Vastu also deals with the philosophy of the architectural relation with the cosmic universe.

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Pañcacāmara (पञ्चचामर) refers to one of the 135 metres (chandas) mentioned by Nañjuṇḍa (1794-1868 C.E.) in his Vṛttaratnāvalī. Nañjuṇḍa was a poet of both Kannada and Sanskrit literature flourished in the court of the famous Kṛṣṇarāja Woḍeyar of Mysore. He introduces the names of these metres (e.g., Pañcacāmara) in 20 verses.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pañcacāmara (पञ्चचामर).—Name of 2 kinds of metre; प्रमाणिकापदद्वयं वदन्ति पञ्चचामरम् (pramāṇikāpadadvayaṃ vadanti pañcacāmaram) Vṛttaratnākara.

Derivable forms: pañcacāmaram (पञ्चचामरम्).

Pañcacāmara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pañcan and cāmara (चामर).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pañcacāmara (पञ्चचामर).—n.

(-raṃ) A form of metre, in which the line contains sixteen syllables.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Pañcacāmara (पञ्चचामर) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—bhakti. Rādh. 30.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pañcacāmara (पञ्चचामर):—[=pañca-cāmara] [from pañca] n. Name of 2 kinds of metre, [Colebrooke]

[Sanskrit to German]

Pancacamara in German

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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: Camara, Panca.

Starts with: Pancacamarastotra.

Full-text: Pancacamarastotra, Carana, Atidhriti.

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Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture (by D. N. Shukla)

Chapter 6 - Group B: Later Lāṭa Style

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The Matsya Purana (critical study) (by Kushal Kalita)

Part 1 - Use of Chandas (metres) in the Matsyapurāṇa < [Chapter 2 - Literary aspect of the Matsyapurāṇa]

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