Indravamsha, Indravaṃśā, Indra-vamsha, Imdravamsha: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Indravaṃśā can be transliterated into English as Indravamsa or Indravamsha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature1) Indravaṃśā (इन्द्रवंशा) refers to one of the 130 varṇavṛttas (syllabo-quantitative verse) dealt with in the second chapter of the Vṛttamuktāvalī, ascribed to Durgādatta (19th century), author of eight Sanskrit work and patronised by Hindupati: an ancient king of the Bundela tribe (presently Bundelkhand of Uttar Pradesh). A Varṇavṛtta (e.g., indra-vaṃśā) refers to a type of classical Sanskrit metre depending on syllable count where the light-heavy patterns are fixed.
2) Indravaṃśā (इन्द्रवंशा) refers to one of the seventy-two sama-varṇavṛtta (regular syllabo-quantitative verse) mentioned in the 334th 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 indra-vaṃśā metre) in 8 chapters (328-335) in 101 verses in total.
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryIndravaṃśā (इन्द्रवंशा).—Name of two metres, see Appendix.
Indravaṃśā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms indra and vaṃśā (वंशा). See also (synonyms): indravajrā.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryIndravaṃśā (इन्द्रवंशा).—[feminine] [Name] of a metre.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryIndravaṃśā (इन्द्रवंशा):—[=indra-vaṃśā] [from indra] f. a metre of four lines (each of which contains twelve syllables).
[Sanskrit to German]
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 corpusIṃdravaṃśa (ಇಂದ್ರವಂಶ):—[noun] (pros.) a kind of metre which has in each quarter twelve syllables.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Vamsha, Indra.
Full-text: Indravajra, Upajati, Vamshastha.
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