Mugdhika, Mugdhikā: 1 definition
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In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)Mugdhikā (मुग्धिका) is the name of a catuṣpadi metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhraṃśa bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Mugdhikā has 26 mātrās in each of its four lines, divided into the groups of 4, 4, 4, 5, 4 and 5 mātrās, where the 2nd group must not be [ISI]. These two metres [i.e., Mugdhikā and Citralekhā] are but the varieties of the Adhikākṣarā, obtained by the substitution of a pañcamātra for a caturmātra in the 4th and the 1st places respectively.
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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Full-text: Citralekha.
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