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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Toḍaka (तोडक) 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., toḍaka) refers to a type of classical Sanskrit metre depending on syllable count where the light-heavy patterns are fixed.

Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)

Toḍaka (तोडक) is another name for Nandinī, which refers to a catuṣpadi metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhraṃśa bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Bhittaka has 16 mātrās in each of its four lines, divided into the groups of [SII], [SII], [SII] and [SII] mātrās.—The Nandinī or the Chittaka and Bhittaka are varṇa-vṛttas known respectively as Toḍaka and Dodhaka.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

tōḍaka (तोडक).—a (tōṇḍaṇēṃ) That soon falls out with and breaks with; crabbed, quarrelsome.

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tōḍakā (तोडका).—m Commonly tōḍagā.

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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: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Todaka (तोदक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Todaga.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Todakalu.

Ends with (+7): Acantodaka, Amritodaka, Angulipatodaka, Antodaka, Durakhatodaka, Gartodaka, Gatodaka, Hastodaka, Jatodaka, Kasatodaka, Katodaka, Kritodaka, Nirvatodaka, Paryushitodaka, Patodaka, Pishtodaka, Pitodaka, Praptodaka, Putodaka, Samplutodaka.

Full-text: Todaga, Gatodaka, Dodhaka, Bhittaka, Chittaka, Nandini.

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