Mattebhavikridita, Mattebhavikrīḍita, Mattebha-vikridita: 5 definitions
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In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Mattebhavikrīḍita (मत्तेभविक्रीडित) 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., Mattebhavikrīḍita) in 20 verses.
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
Mattebhavikrīḍita (मत्तेभविक्रीडित):—[=mattebha-vikrīḍita] [from mattebha > matta > mad] n. Name of a metre, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
[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
Mattēbhavikrīḍita (ಮತ್ತೇಭವಿಕ್ರೀಡಿತ):—[noun] (pros.) a metrical verse, having seven groups of three syllables followed by a short and a long syllables (uu-, -uu, -uu, -u-, uuu, —-, u—, u, -).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Yasastilaka and Indian culture (Study) (by Krishna Kanta Jandiqui)
8. Metres used by Somadeva < [Chapter 7 - Yasastilaka as an Anthology of Sanskrit verse]
Isanasivagurudeva Paddhati (study) (by J. P. Prajith)
4. Comparing the Sarada Tilaka and Isanasivagurudeva-paddhati < [Chapter 5 - Isanasivagurudeva-paddhati and Saradatilaka]
Ganita-sara-sangraha by Mahavira-Acharya (by M. Rangacharya)
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