Sumangali, Sumaṅgalī, Sumamgali: 3 definitions

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Sumangali means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

[«previous next»] — Sumangali in Chandas glossary
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Sumaṅgalī (सुमङ्गली) is the name of a Sanskrit metre (chandas) to which Hemacandra (1088-1173 C.E.) assigned the alternative name of Nandinī in his auto-commentary on the second chapter of the Chandonuśāsana. Sumaṅgalī also corresponds to Manovatī according to Bharata. Hemacandra gives these alternative names for the metres by other authorities (like Bharata), even though the number of gaṇas or letters do not differ.

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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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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Sumangali in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sumaṅgalī (सुमङ्गली):—[=su-maṅgalī] [from su-maṅgala > su > su-ma] f. (saṃjñāyām) [gana] gaurādi

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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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Kannada-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Sumangali in Kannada glossary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Sumaṃgali (ಸುಮಂಗಲಿ):—

1) [noun] a lucky, fortunate woman.

2) [noun] a woman who is considered to be auspicious.

3) [noun] a woman whose husband is alive.

4) [noun] (pros.) a metre having seventeen syllables (uuu, u-u, -uu, u-u, u-u, u, -).

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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