The Sanskrit term Vṛttālaṅkāramālikā can be transliterated into English as Vrttalankaramalika or Vrittalankaramalika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Vṛttālaṅkāramālikā (वृत्तालङ्कारमालिका) is the name of a work on Sanskrit prosody (chandas) ascribed to Śrīmuṣṇaṃ Śrīnivāsa Kavi of Vīravallī family. He is the son of Varada Deśika alias Varada Nārāyaṇaguru of Kauṇḍinyagotra and great-grandfather of Veṅkaṭavarada. The text Vṛttālaṅkāramālikā is mentioned by Veṅkaṭavarada (probably a disciple of the author) in his Kṛṣṇavijaya (a Ḍima variety drama).

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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: Vrittalankara, Malika.

Full-text (+4): Anangamangalabhana, Shrirangarajacarita, Ashtapadi, Anangamangala, Mimamsasarasangraha, Ambujavallidandaka, Dhyanacurnika, Bharatacandrika, Varahavijaya, Shrirangarajastava, Ambujavallikalyana, Ganapadani, Bhuvarahavijaya, Varahacampu, Rahasyatraya, Ambujavalliparinaya, Curnikakirtanani, Vakulamalinigitaparinaya, Vedantasara, Shrirangadandaka.

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