Upabhramarapada, Upabhramara-pada: 1 definition
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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)Upabhramarapada (उपभ्रमरपद) is the name of an Apabhraṃśa metre classified as Dvipadi (metres with two lines in a stanza) discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Bhramarapada has 28 mātrās in a line, made up by employing a ṣaṇmātra, followed by 5 caturmātras and a dvimātra at the end.—All the three [i.e., Laya, Bhramarapada and Upabhramarapada] are tāla-vṛttas and are sung in the tāla of 8 mātrās, with this difference that the beat of the tālā occurs on the 1st mātrā in the first, while it occurs on the 3rd in the other two.
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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