The Sanskrit term Vṛttamaṇikośa can be transliterated into English as Vrttamanikosa or Vrittamanikosha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Vṛttamaṇikośa (वृत्तमणिकोश) or Vṛttamaṇimālā is the name of a work ascribed to Śrīnivāsa (son of Lakṣmī and Veṅkaṭa) related to the topics of Sanskrit prosody (chandas) but having an unknown period of composition.

The Vṛttamaṇikośa is described under Prastāraśekhara. This is the second work of Śrīnīvāsa on the science of metres. His Prastāraśekhara deals with the technicality of prastāra of various metres whereas the Vṛttamaṇikośa defines the application and narration of different metres of Sanskrit. Like the Prastāraśekhara this text is also divided into six chapters, named viṣkambha, and Prastāraśekhara, Lord Hari is also prayed by Śrīnivāsa at the beginning. The author addresses the Lord with various synonyms of his name. He says Lord Hari and one who takes resort to Śeṣādri (śeṣādriśaraṇa), who remains always young (nityataruṇa), decorated with the pearls namely Kaustubha (kaustubhābharaṇa), who saves the Globe (viśvoddharaṇa) should protect.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Vṛttamaṇikośa (वृत्तमणिकोश) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Burnell. 53^b.

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

Vṛttamaṇikośa (वृत्तमणिकोश):—[=vṛtta-maṇikośa] [from vṛtta > vṛt] m. Name of [work]

context information

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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vritta, Kosha, Koca.

Full-text: Vrittamanimala.

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