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Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: archive.org: The Ragas Of Karnatic Music

Puṇḍarīkaviṭṭhala (पुण्डरीकविट्ठल).—Puṇḍarīka Viṭṭhala, like Rāmāmātya, says that all rāgas are derived from the Ṣaḍjagrāma. He gives in his Sadrāga-candrodaya, a list of sixteen janaka-meḷās and their janya-rāgas. In the same work he expresses the that Śiva divided the rāgas into three groups (śuddha, sālaṅga, saṅkīrṇa).

In his Rāgameḷa, he deals with the classification of Hindustani rāgas. He mentions six principal rāgas and assignes five rāgiṇīs as wives and five putras for each of the six rāgas. In his Rāgamañjarī he includes the definition of 25 Persian airs.

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Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Puṇḍarīkaviṭṭhala (पुण्डरीकविट्ठल) (16th century) otherwise known as Viṭṭhala Puṇḍarīka is a well known scholar in music as well as in Dharmaśāstra, Alaṅkāraśāstra and chandas. His erudite scholarship has touched the height of excellence, which can be judged only from his compositions. He belonged to Jāmadagnya-gotra and was the son of Dharma and Nāgā, native of Sāvaṇadurga (Śivagaṅgā) in Karṇāṭaka; migrated to north India. He was patronized by Burhānkhān of Ānandavallī, King Bhagavantadāsa and his son Mādhavasiṃha and Mānasiṃha.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Puṇḍarīkaviṭṭhala (पुण्डरीकविट्ठल) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—from Karṇāṭaka, son of Mādhavasiṃharāja, lived under Akbār: Nartananirṇaya. Rāgamañjarī. Śīghrabodhinī Nāmamālā. Ṣaḍrāgacandrodaya.

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

Puṇḍarīkaviṭṭhala (पुण्डरीकविट्ठल):—[=puṇḍarīka-viṭṭhala] [from puṇḍarīka] m. Name of an author who lived under Akbār, [Catalogue(s)]

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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: Vitthala, Pundarika.

Full-text (+1): Nartananirnaya, Ragamanjari, Shadragacandrodaya, Ragamala, Shighrabodhini namamala, Nartakanirnaya, Bhagavantadasa, Manasimha, Madhavasimha, Savanadurga, Shivaganga, Vitthaliya, Sangitavrittaratnakara, Vrittalahari, Sangitanirnaya, Shighrabodhininamamala, Dutikarmaprakasha, Raganarayana, Ragapadyamrita, Suracandrodaya.

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