Vaishvadevi, Vaiśvadevī, Vaisvadevī: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Vaiśvadevī can be transliterated into English as Vaisvadevi or Vaishvadevi, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature1) Vaiśvadevī (वैश्वदेवी) is the alternative name of a Sanskrit metre (chandas) mentioned by Hemacandra (1088-1173 C.E.) in his auto-commentary on the second chapter of the Chandonuśāsana. Vaiśvadevī corresponds to Candrakantā. Hemacandra gives these alternative names for the metres by other authorities (like Bharata), even though the number of gaṇas or letters do not differ.
2) Vaisvadevī (वैस्वदेवी) 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., Vaisvadevī) in 20 verses.
3) Vaiśvadevī (वैश्वदेवी) refers to one of the seventy-two sama-varṇavṛtta (regular syllabo-quantitative verse) mentioned in the 334th chapter of the Agnipurāṇa. The Agnipurāṇa deals with various subjects viz. literature, poetics, grammar, architecture in its 383 chapters and deals with the entire science of prosody (e.g., the vaiśvadevī metre) in 8 chapters (328-335) in 101 verses in total.
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 Dictionary1) Vaiśvadevī (वैश्वदेवी):—[from vaiśvadeva > vaiśva] f. Name of [particular] sacrificial bricks, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] the 8th day of the 2nd half of the month Māgha, [Colebrooke]
3) [v.s. ...] a kind of metre, [Śrutabodha]
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusVaiśvadēvi (ವೈಶ್ವದೇವಿ):—
1) [noun] the eighth day in the second half of Māgha, the eleventh month in the Hindu lunar calendar.
2) [noun] (pros.) a metrical verse having four lines each of which having four groups of thr three syllables (—-, —-, u—, u—).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Vaishva, Devi, Tevi.
Starts with: Vaishvadevika.
Full-text: Vaiccuvatevi, Candrakanta.
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