Mattamatangalilakara, Mattamātaṅgalīlākara, Mattamatanga-lilakara: 3 definitions
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In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureMattamātaṅgalīlākara (मत्तमातङ्गलीलाकर) is the name of a daṇḍaka type of Sanskrit metre according to Gaṅgādāsa (16th century) in his Chandomañjarī. Accordingly, the metre which has above 26 letters in its each pāda is called as daṇḍaka. It is also considered as samavṛtta.
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
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Mattamatangalilakara in 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.
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Partial matches: Lilakara, Mattamatamga.
Full-text: Matanga.
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