Anugiti, Anugīti: 6 definitions

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Anugiti 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.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anugīti (अनुगीति).—See under अनुगै (anugai).

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Anugīti (अनुगीति).—f. Name of a metre of two lines, the first having 27 and the second 32, mātrās, a species of the Aryā metre.

Derivable forms: anugītiḥ (अनुगीतिः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anugīti (अनुगीति).—[feminine] [Name] of a metre.

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

Anugīti (अनुगीति):—[=anu-gīti] [from anu-gai] f. Name of a metre (of two verses, the first containing twenty-seven, the second thirty-two mātrās)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anugīti (अनुगीति):—[tatpurusha compound] f.

(-tiḥ) The name of a metre regulated by feet and belonging to the class called gaṇacchandas or gaṇavṛtta qq. vv. It consists of a couplet of two verses with twentyseven syllables in the first, and with thirty-two syllables in the second verse; it is measured by feet, denominated gaṇa or mātrāgaṇa which are equivalent to two long syllables or to four short; its odd feet (the first, third, fifth and seventh) must never be amphibrachys, the sixth foot of the first verse consists of a single short syllable and that of the second verse of an Amphibrachys or Proceleusmaticus. The pause is commonly restricted to the close of the third foot. If the long verse precede the short one, the metre is called sugīti. E. anu and gīti (another metre).

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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.

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