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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Taḍit (तडित्) is the name of a Sanskrit metre (chandas) defined by Bharata, to which Hemacandra (1088-1173 C.E.) assigned the alternative name of Mṛgī in his auto-commentary on the second chapter of the Chandonuśāsana. 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.

Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: Wisdom Library: Nāṭya-śāstra

Taḍit (तडित्) is the name of a cloud whose sound corresponds to the Āliṅgya note made by drums (puṣkara) according to the Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 33. Accordingly, “after seeing that the Mṛdaṅgas, Paṇavas and Dardaras have been made, the great sage Svāti brought about a similarity of their notes with those of clouds... The rain-cloud named Taḍit gave note to Āliṅgya... Those who want Success of performances should make to these clouds, offerings which are dear to spirits (bhūta)”.

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Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (śāstra) of performing arts, (nāṭya, e.g., 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) and poetic works (kavya).

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

taḍit (तडित्).—f S Lightning.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

taḍit (तडित्).—f Lightning.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Taḍit (तडित्).—f.

1) Lightning; घनं घनान्ते तडितां गुणैरिव (ghanaṃ ghanānte taḍitāṃ guṇairiva) Śi.1.7; Me.77; R.6.65; तडितो मानुषतां गता इव (taḍito mānuṣatāṃ gatā iva) Śāhendra.2.71.

2) Killing, injury. -ind. Closely, near.

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

Taḍit (तडित्).—f. (-ḍit) Lightning. E. taḍ to strike or beat, Unadi affix iti striking the earth, &c.

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

Taḍit (तडित्).—[taḍ + it], f. Lightning, [Kirātārjunīya] 5, 46.

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

Taḍit (तडित्).—[feminine] lightning.

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

1) Taḍit (तडित्):—[from taḍ] ind. = ḍitas, [Ṛg-veda i, 94, 7] (taLit)

2) [v.s. ...] f. ‘stroke (vadha-karman, [Naighaṇṭuka, commented on by Yāska ii, 19])’, lightning, [Nirukta, by Yāska iii, 10f.; Suśruta] etc. (ifc. ḍita, [Vetāla-pañcaviṃśatikā [Introduction] 20])

[Sanskrit to German] (Deutsch Wörterbuch)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Taḍit (तडित्):—1. taLit Adv. anstossend , nahe.

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Taḍit (तडित्):—2. f. —

1) Blitz. —

2) taLit = vadhakarman.

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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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