The Sanskrit term Vaijayantīkośa can be transliterated into English as Vaijayantikosa or Vaijayantikosha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kosha (encyclopedic lexicons)

Source: Shodhganga: Technical study of the dictionaries published in Sanskrit language since 1800 AD

Vaijayantikośa (वैजयन्तिकोश) is a voluminous lexicon by Yādavaprakāśa (earlier to 1100 A.D.). The lexicon has two broad divisions, viz. synonyms, and homonyms. The division on synonyms has five sections or kāṇṇās. The division on homonyms has three sections. All these kandas are further sub-divided into several sub-sections. The genders are arranged in order of masculine, feminine, neuter and mixed in the homonyms portion. The third section of homonyms division has four additional sections treating with synonyms, either single or in compound of specific words applied to different objects, homonymous indeclinables, synonymous indeclinables and general rules relating to the genders, respectively. A special feature of the lexicon, which makes it voluminous in nature, is the inclusion of Vedic terms. Thus, the lexicon often referred to as an authority on ancient lexicography.

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Kosha (कोश, kośa) refers to Sanskrit lexicons intended to provide additional information regarding technical terms used in religion, philosophy and the various sciences (shastra). The oldest extant thesaurus (kosha) dates to the 4th century AD.

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Vaijayantīkośa (वैजयन्तीकोश) is the name of a work ascribed to Śrīnivāsa, son of Lakṣmī and Veṅkaṭeśa (or Veṅkaṭeśaor Veṅkaṭanāyaka): the author of works on Sanskrit prosody (e.g., Prastāraśekhara and Vṛttamaṇimālā) and other works. Śrīnivāsa belonged to Kauśikagotra and Vājasaneyaśākhā of the Śuklayajurveda.

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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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Partial matches: Kosha, Vaijayanti, Koca.

Full-text: Shrinivasa.

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