Ragadadhruvaka, Ragaḍādhruvaka, Ragada-dhruvaka: 1 definition
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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)Ragaḍādhruvaka (रगडाध्रुवक) 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.—Ragaḍādhruvaka has 17 mātrās in each of their four lines, with 17 mātrās divided into groups of 4, 4, 4, 5 mātrās, [?where however, the third caturmātra must be of the Jagaṇa type (ISI) and the fourth must consist of 2 long letters.]
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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