The Sanskrit terms Adhikākṣarā and Adhikākṣara can be transliterated into English as Adhikaksara or Adhikakshara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)

Adhikākṣarā (अधिकाक्षरा) is the name of a catuṣpadi metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhraṃśa bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Adhikākṣarā has 25 mātrās in each of its four lines, divided into the groups of 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 and 5 mātrās, where the 2nd and the 4th caturmātras must not be [ISI] and the 3rd must be [ISI] or [IIII], with the yati after the 12th mātrā.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Adhikākṣara (अधिकाक्षर):—[from adhika > adhi] mfn. having a redundant syllable, [Nirukta, by Yāska]

[Sanskrit to German]

Adhikakshara 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Adhikākṣara (ಅಧಿಕಾಕ್ಷರ):—

1) [noun] a syllable in excess of requirement of the prosody.

2) [noun] a stanza or the foot of such stanza which has an excessive syllable or syllables.

3) [noun] in a poetical work, a fault of having more letters than required in a foot.

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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)

Starts with: Adhikaksharashirshaka.

Full-text: Adhikaksharashirshaka, Trikalaka, Citralekha, Mugdhika, Adhika.

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