Ratnakanthika, Ratnakaṇṭhikā, Ratna-kanthika: 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)Ratnakaṇṭhikā (रत्नकण्ठिका) is the name of an Apabhraṃśa metre classified as Dvipadi (metres with two lines in a stanza) discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Ratnakaṇṭhikā has 31 mātrās in each of their two lines.—The line of Ratnakaṇṭhikā contains 1 ṣaṇmātra, 5 caturmātras and 1 pañccamātra, with the yati on the 12th and the 20th mātrās (this according to Svayambhū; in the opinion of Hemacandra, Ratnakaṇṭhikā differs from the first two [i.e., Kamlākara and Kuṃkumatilakāvali] only in point of yati); the Ratnakaṇṭhikā of Svayambhū, is exactly the same as the Śikhā of Hemacandra.—The Śikhā of Svayambhū again, is an ardhasama-catuṣpadi.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Kanthika, Ratna.
Full-text: Shikha.
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