Hiravali, Hīrāvalī, Hira-avali: 4 definitions

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Hiravali means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

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

Hīrāvālī (हीरावाली) 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.—Hīrāvālī has 20 mātrās in each of its four lines, divided into the groups of 5, 5, 4 and 6 mātrās.

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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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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

hirāvaḷī (हिरावळी).—f A female covering for the upper parts of the body. v pāṅghara.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

hirāvaḷī (हिरावळी).—f A female covering for the upper parts of the body.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Hirāvaḷi (ಹಿರಾವಳಿ):—[noun] name of a medicinal plant ( =ಹಿಯಾವಳಿ [hiyavali] or ಹಿತಾವಳಿ [hitavali]).

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Hīrāvaḷi (ಹೀರಾವಳಿ):—[noun] a

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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.

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