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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

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

Mattamātaṅgaka (मत्तमातङ्गक) (or Mattamātaṅgavijṛmbhita) 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.—Mattamātaṅgaka has 39 mātrās in each of their two lines, made up with 2 ṣaṇmātras, 6 caturmātras, and 1 trimātra at the end. The yati in is after the 14th and the 22nd 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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