Vrittaramayana, Vṛttarāmāyaṇa, Vritta-ramayana: 3 definitions
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Vrittaramayana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Vṛttarāmāyaṇa can be transliterated into English as Vrttaramayana or Vrittaramayana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureVṛttarāmāyaṇa (वृत्तरामायण) is the name of a work ascribed to Kavīndrācārya (disciple of Rāmānujācārya). The catalogus says that the Vṛttarāmāyaṇa deals with the rules of versification. The manuscript of 80 pages and 11 lines in each page has 900 verses in total. He also gives the date of the manuscript as 1863, most probably the date of copying of the text. The manuscript deposited under the possession of Sriyugalananya Sarana of Faizabad. related to the topics of Sanskrit prosody (chandas) but having an unknown period of composition.
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: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumVṛttarāmāyaṇa (वृत्तरामायण) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—metrics, by Kavi (?), a pupil of Rāmānujācārya. Oudh. V, 10.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVṛttarāmāyaṇa (वृत्तरामायण):—[=vṛtta-rāmāyaṇa] [from vṛtta > vṛt] n. Name of [work]
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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