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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

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

Nirvāpitā (निर्वापिता) 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.—Nirvāpitā has 17 mātrās in each of its four lines, divided into the groups of 4, 4, [ISI or IIII] and 5 mātrās.

context information

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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Nirvāpita (निर्वापित).—a.

1) Extinguished, quenched.

2) Cooled.

3) Killed.

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

Nirvāpita (निर्वापित) or Nirvvāpita.—mfn.

(-taḥ-tā-taṃ) 1. Put out, quenched, extingnished. 2. Allayed, cooled. 3. Killed. 4. Offered in oblation. E. nir, vap to go, causal v. kta aff.

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

1) Nirvāpita (निर्वापित):—[=nir-vāpita] [from nir-vap] a mfn. scattered, sown, [Pañcatantra 1.]

2) [=nir-vāpita] [from nir-vā] b mfn. extinguished, quenched, allayed, cooled, [Raghuvaṃśa; Mālatīmādhava; Kathāsaritsāgara]

3) [v.s. ...] killed, [Horace H. Wilson 3.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nirvāpita (निर्वापित):—[nir-vāpita] (taḥ-tā-taṃ) a. Quenched; cooled; killed; offered up.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Nirvāpita (निर्वापित) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Ṇivvavia, Ṇivvāviya.

context information

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

Nirvāpita (ನಿರ್ವಾಪಿತ):—[adjective] cooled down; that has become calm; calmed down.

context information

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: Vapita, Nir.

Full-text: Nivvavia, Nivvaviya, Trikalaka, Nirvvapita, Dagha.

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