Aryagiti, Āryāgīti, Arya-giti: 7 definitions
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In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature1) Āryāgīti (आर्यागीति) is a type of mātrāvṛtta (quantitative verse) described in the Gītiprakaraṇa section of the second chapter of Kedārabhaṭṭa’s Vṛttaratnākara. The Vṛttaratnākara is considered as most popular work in Sanskrit prosody, because of its rich and number of commentaries. Kedārabhaṭṭa (C. 950-1050 C.E.) was a celebrated author in Sanskrit prosody.
2) Āryāgīti (आर्यागीति) refers to one of the thirty mātrāvṛtta (quantitative verse) mentioned in the 331st chapter of the Agnipurāṇa. The Agnipurāṇa deals with various subjects viz. literature, poetics, grammar, architecture in its 383 chapters and deals with the entire science of prosody (e.g., the āryāgīti metre) in 8 chapters (328-335) in 101 verses in total.
3) Āryāgīti (आर्यागीति) refers to one of the thirty-four mātrāvṛtta (quantitative verse) mentioned in the Garuḍapurāṇa. The Garuḍapurāṇa also deals with the science of prosody (e.g., the āryā-gīti) in its six chapters 207-212. The chapters comprise 5, 18, 41, 7 and 9 verses respectively.
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: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryĀryāgīti (आर्यागीति) or Āryyāgīti.—f.
(-tiḥ) A variety of the Arya metre, containing eight equal feet or thirty-two syllabic instants in each verse of the couplet. E. āryā and gīti another metre.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryĀryāgīti (आर्यागीति).—[feminine] [Name] of a metre.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryĀryāgīti (आर्यागीति):—[=āryā-gīti] [from ārya] f. a variety of the Āryā metre (containing eight equal feet or thirty-two syllabic instants in each verse of the couplet).
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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 corpusĀryāgīti (ಆರ್ಯಾಗೀತಿ):—[noun] (rhet.) a metre corresponding to 'ಕಂದ [kamda]'.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Ends with: Caryagiti.
Full-text: Aryyagiti, Vrittamanimanjusha, Matravritta, Khandaka, Paddhadia, Paddhatika.
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Mudrarakshasa (literary study) (by Antara Chakravarty)
2.19. Use of Gīti metre < [Chapter 4 - Employment of Chandas in Mudrārākṣasa]
The backdrop of the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa (by Dhrubajit Sarma)
Part 4b - Chandas (2): Jāti type of metre (mātrāchandas) < [Chapter III - Literary Assessment Of The Śrīkaṇṭhacarita]
Satirical works of Kshemendra (study) (by Arpana Devi)
4. Chandas or the metre < [Chapter 4 - Literary study of the Three Satirical Works]
The Agni Purana (by N. Gangadharan)
Brihat Samhita (by N. Chidambaram Iyer)