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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Google Books: Indian Kāvya Literature

Chaḍḍaṇikā or Chaḍḍaṇi is a metre commonly used for the refrain or concluding verse at the end of a kaḍavaka (Chandolakṣaṇa pp. 69-7, after the rhymed couplets of paddhaṭikā). Chaḍḍaṇi is sometimes used as a general term for the final refrain (Bhayani, Paumacariu, Introduction p. 78).

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

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

Chaḍḍanikā (छड्डनिका) is the name of an Apabhraṃśa metre classified as Dvipadi (metres with two lines in a stanza) discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Chaḍḍanikā has 31 mātrās in each of their two lines.—The line of a Chaḍḍanikā of Hemacandra is formed like that of the Kuṃkumatilakāvali, i.e., with 7 caturmātras and 1 trimātra, but it has the yati after the 10th and the 18th mātrās. Svayambhū on the other hand, considers Chaḍḍanikā as a ṣaṭpadi metre.

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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.

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Full-text: Chaddani, Ghatta.

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