Vrittakarika, Vṛttakārikā, Vritta-karika: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Vṛttakārikā can be transliterated into English as Vrttakarika or Vrittakarika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature1) Vṛttakārikā (वृत्तकारिका) is the name of a text dealing with Sanskrit prosody (chandas) for which no authorship could be traced. Usually the authors mention their names, parentage etc. in the colophon of their works. But there are certain works in which, the author leaves no impression of his identity. The Vṛttakārikā is mentioned in the “New Catalogus Catalogorum” XXXI. p. 4.
2) Vṛttakārikā (वृत्तकारिका) is the name of a work ascribed to Nārāyaṇapurohita related to the topics of Sanskrit prosody (chandas) but having an unknown period of composition.
2) Nārāyaṇapurohita is most probably same as the author in the same name who is the son of Nṛsiṃhayajvan. The later had composed a commentary namely Maṇinidhi or Maṇimañjarī or Matimañjarī on Vṛttaratnākara. The Vṛttakārikā probably a text but mistaken for the commentary
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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