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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

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

Kandoṭṭa (कन्दोट्ट) (also Tīrthānana according to Svayambhū) 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.—Kandoṭṭa has 35 mātrās in each of their two lines, formed by 8 caturmātras and 1 trimātra at the end in its line; no special yati is mentioned. The Kandoṭṭa of Svayambhūchandas VI.189, however has the yati on the 14th and 22nd mātrās.

context information

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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kandoṭṭa (कन्दोट्ट).—

1) The white lotus.

2) The blue lotus (a provincial form for nīlotpala); मोहमुकुलायमाननेत्रकन्दो- टयुगुलः (mohamukulāyamānanetrakando- ṭayugulaḥ) Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 7.

-ṭam A blue lotus.

Derivable forms: kandoṭṭaḥ (कन्दोट्टः).

See also (synonyms): kandoṭa.

context information

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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Full-text: Tirthanana, Kandota.

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