Anushtubha, Anuṣṭubha: 5 definitions
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Anushtubha 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 Anuṣṭubha can be transliterated into English as Anustubha or Anushtubha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Anuṣṭubha (अनुष्टुभ).—A Sanskrit verse meter consisting of four quarter-verses of eight syllables each. Note: Anuṣṭubha is a Sanskrit technical term used in ancient Indian sciences such as Astronomy, Mathematics and Geometry.
Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
Ganitashastra (Mathematics and Algebra)
Anuṣṭubha (अनुष्टुभ) [=anuṣṭubh?] represents the number 8 (eight) in the “word-numeral system” (bhūtasaṃkhyā), which was used in Sanskrit texts dealing with astronomy, mathematics, metrics, as well as in the dates of inscriptions and manuscripts in ancient Indian literature.—A system of expressing numbers by means of words arranged as in the place-value notation was developed and perfected in India in the early centuries of the Christian era. In this system the numerals [e.g., 8—anuṣṭubha] are expressed by names of things, beings or concepts, which, naturally or in accordance with the teaching of the Śāstras, connote numbers.
Ganita (गणित) or Ganitashastra refers to the ancient Indian science of mathematics, algebra, number theory, arithmetic, etc. Closely allied with astronomy, both were commonly taught and studied in universities, even since the 1st millennium BCE. Ganita-shastra also includes ritualistic math-books such as the Shulba-sutras.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
1) Ānuṣṭubha (आनुष्टुभ):—mf(ī)n. consisting of Anu-ṣṭubhs
2) formed like the Anu-ṣṭubh metre (e.g. composed of four divisions), [Ṛg-veda x, 181, 1; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Ṛgveda-prātiśākhya]
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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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Starts with: Anushtubhaushniha.
Full-text: Narasimhanushtubha, Anushtubh, Anushtubhaushniha, Abhisampanna, Sloka, Nyasadaru.
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Rig Veda 10.124.9 < [Sukta 124]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 533 < [Gujarati-Hindi-English, Volume 3]
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Page 90 < [Volume 15 (1911)]
Brihaddevata attributed to Shaunaka (by Arthur Anthony Macdonell)
Part 22 - Deities of Nivids, Nigadas, and metres < [Chapter 8 - Deities of Rigveda X.98-191 (1-98); Conclusion (99-140)]
Part 20-21 - Two Khilas; Rigveda X.191; Mahanamni stanzas < [Chapter 8 - Deities of Rigveda X.98-191 (1-98); Conclusion (99-140)]
Part 24 - Deities of Rigveda X.72-84; Khilas < [Chapter 7 - Deities of Rigveda IX.17-98]
Indian Astronomy (a source book) (by B. V. Subbarayappa)