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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Lalitapadā (ललितपदा) refers to one of the 135 metres (chandas) mentioned by Nañjuṇḍa (1794-1868 C.E.) in his Vṛttaratnāvalī. Nañjuṇḍa was a poet of both Kannada and Sanskrit literature flourished in the court of the famous Kṛṣṇarāja Woḍeyar of Mysore. He introduces the names of these metres (e.g., Lalitapadā) in 20 verses.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Lalitapada (ललितपद).—a.

1) elegantly composed; Ś.3.

2) consisting of amorous words. °बन्धनम् (bandhanam) an amorous composition.

Lalitapada is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms lalita and pada (पद).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Lalitapada (ललितपद).—Adj. Elegantly composed.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Lalitapada (ललितपद):—[=lalita-pada] [from lalita > lal] mf(ā)n. consisting of amorous or graceful words, elegantly composed, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]

2) [v.s. ...] n. a kind of metre, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]

[Sanskrit to German]

Lalitapada in German

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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 corpus

Lalitapada (ಲಲಿತಪದ):—[noun] (pros.) a verse having four groups of three syllables (uuu, u-u, u-u, u—).

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pada, Lalita, Pata.

Starts with: Lalitapadabandhana.

Full-text: Lalitapadabandhana.

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