Vrittakautuka, Vṛttakautuka, Vritta-kautuka: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Vṛttakautuka can be transliterated into English as Vrttakautuka or Vrittakautuka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureVṛttakautuka (वृत्तकौतुक) is the name of a work ascribed to Viśvanātha (son of Caturbhuja) related to the topics of Sanskrit prosody (chandas) but having an unknown period of composition.
Viśvanātha was a devotee of Lord Viśvanātha of Kāśī and Lord Gaṇeśa, as he starts the Vṛttakautuka by praying them. He also mentions the name of his father in the invocatory verse itself. He writes about his migration from Vijñāsapura to Digambarapura and offers his gratitude to Lord Viśvanātha by saying that he is blessed (sanātha) by the Lord. Besides this Vṛttakautuka, Viśvanātha has composed another work called Śāktānandataraṅgiṇī, in 18 ullāsas.
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
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumVṛttakautuka (वृत्तकौतुक) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—by Viśvanātha, son of Caturbhuja. W. p. 226.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVṛttakautuka (वृत्तकौतुक):—[=vṛtta-kautuka] [from vṛtta > vṛt] n.
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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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Partial matches: Vritta, Kautuka.
Full-text: Vishvanatha.
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