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Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

1) Utkalikāprāya (उत्कलिकाप्राय) refers to one of the three types of gadya according to Candraśekhara’s Vṛttamauktika 6.1-2. As the metres are used in padyas, there are also metres, prescribed for gadyas. Candraśekhara (author of Vṛttamauktika) divides the whole vāṅmaya in two groups i.e. padya and gadya. He defines gadya as the composition, which is distracted with pāda. He again divides the gadya into three viz. Cūrṇaka, Utkalikāprāya and Vṛttagandhi.

Description of Utkalikāprāya: The Utkalikāprāya is just the opposite of cūrṇaka. The composition which has harsh letters and compound words is called as Utkalikāprāya. Hence the gauḍīrīti can be observed here. However, Gaṅgādāsa does not prescribe any specific rīti for this.

2) Utkalikāprāya according to the Chandomañjarī 6.1 by Gaṅgādāsa (16th century):—the utkalikāprāya is just opposite of cūrṇaka. The composition which has harsh letters and compound words is called as utkalikāprāya. But Gaṅgādāsa does not prescribe any rīti for this.

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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

Utkalikāprāya (उत्कलिकाप्राय).—a variety of prose-composition abounding in compound words and hard letters; भवेदुत्कलिकाप्रायं समासाढ्यं दृढाक्षरम् (bhavedutkalikāprāyaṃ samāsāḍhyaṃ dṛḍhākṣaram) Chand. M.6.

Derivable forms: utkalikāprāyam (उत्कलिकाप्रायम्).

Utkalikāprāya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms utkalikā and prāya (प्राय).

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

Utkalikāprāya (उत्कलिकाप्राय):—[=ut-kalikā-prāya] [from ut-kalikā > ut-kal] mfn. abounding in compound words (a kind of prose), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa; Vāmana’s Kāvyālaṃkāravṛtti etc.]

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Utkalikāprāya (ಉತ್ಕಲಿಕಾಪ್ರಾಯ):—[noun] a style of prose composition which abounds in complex sentences, long and hard compounds.

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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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Partial matches: Utkalika, Praya.

Full-text: Gadyavritta, Gadya, Vrittagandhi, Curnaka.

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