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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Tūṇaka (तूणक) refers to one of the 135 metres (chandas) mentioned by Nañjuṇḍa (1794-1868 C.E.) in his Vṛttaratnāvalī. Nañjuṇḍa was a poet of both Kannada and Sanskrit literature flourished in the court of the famous Kṛṣṇarāja Woḍeyar of Mysore. He introduces the names of these metres (e.g., Tūṇaka) in 20 verses.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tuṇaka (तुणक).—Grass, a worthless blade of grass.

Derivable forms: tuṇakam (तुणकम्).

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

Tūṇaka (तूणक).—n.

(-kaṃ) A measure of verse, species of the atiśarkarī metre.

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

1) Ṭunākā (टुनाका):—f. Curculigo orchioides, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Tūṇaka (तूणक):—[from tūṇa] ifc. = ṇa, [Chandomañjarī 77]

3) [v.s. ...] n. a metre of 4 x 15 syllables.

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

Tūṇaka (तूणक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Tūṇaya.

[Sanskrit to German]

Tunaka in German

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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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Starts with: Tunakamijaja, Tunakana.

Ends with: Kutunaka, Stunaka.

Full-text: Tuna, Tunaya, Tunin, Tunika, Atishakvari, Tuni, Jara.

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