The Sanskrit term Śaśivadanā can be transliterated into English as Sasivadana or Shashivadana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

1) Śaśivadanā (शशिवदना) is the alternative name of a Sanskrit metre (chandas) mentioned by Hemacandra (1088-1173 C.E.) in his auto-commentary on the second chapter of the Chandonuśāsana. Śaśivadanā corresponds to Makaraśīrṣā (according to Bharata) as well as Mukulitā. Hemacandra gives these alternative names for the metres by other authorities (like Bharata), even though the number of gaṇas or letters do not differ.

1) Śaśivadanā is also the name of a Sanskrit metre (chandas) to which Hemacandra (1088-1173 C.E.) assigned the alternative name of Siddhi.

2) Śaśivadanā (शशिवदना) refers to one of the 130 varṇavṛttas (syllabo-quantitative verse) dealt with in the second chapter of the Vṛttamuktāvalī, ascribed to Durgādatta (19th century), author of eight Sanskrit work and patronised by Hindupati: an ancient king of the Bundela tribe (presently Bundelkhand of Uttar Pradesh). A Varṇavṛtta (e.g., śaśi-vadanā) refers to a type of classical Sanskrit metre depending on syllable count where the light-heavy patterns are fixed.

3) Śaśivadanā (शशिवदना) refers to one of the 34 varṇavṛttas (syllabo-quantitative verse) dealt with in the Vṛttamaṇimañjūṣā, whose authorship could be traced (also see the “New Catalogus Catalogorum” XXXI. p. 7).

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

Śaśivadanā (शशिवदना).—f.

(-nā) 1. A woman with a face like the moon. 2. A species of the Gayatri metre. E. śaśi, vadana face.

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

Śaśivadanā (शशिवदना).—[feminine] = śaśāṅkavadanā.

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

1) Śaśivadanā (शशिवदना):—[=śaśi-vadanā] [from śaśi > śaś] f. = -mukhī, [Chandomañjarī]

2) [v.s. ...] two kinds of metre, [ib.; Śrutabodha etc.]

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

Śaśivadanā (शशिवदना):—[śaśi-vadanā] (nā) 1. f. A handsome woman; name of a metre.

[Sanskrit to German]

Shashivadana in German

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

Śaśivadana (ಶಶಿವದನ):—[noun] a man having a moon-like comely face.

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: Sasin, Vadana, Shashi, Caci.

Full-text: Makarashirsha, Mukulita, Siddhi, Ghana.

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