Vrittyanuprasa, Vritti-anuprasa, Vṛttyanuprāsa: 8 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Vṛttyanuprāsa can be transliterated into English as Vrttyanuprasa or Vrittyanuprasa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Kavyashastra (science of poetry)
Vṛttyanuprāsa (वृत्त्यनुप्रास) refers to one of the four varieties of Anuprāsa: one of the 93 alaṃkāras (“figures of speech”) mentioned by Cirañjīva Bhaṭṭācārya (fl. 17th century) in his Kāvyavilāsa, listed as one of the 4 śabdālaṃkāras (figure of speech determined by sound, as opposed to the sense).—The figure vṛttyanuprāsa has been admitted by most of the Ālaṃkārikas.
According to Cirañjīva when the whole sentence is full by the recurrence it is called vṛttyanuprāsa—“āvṛttavarṇasampūrṇaṃ vṛttyanuprāsavadvacaḥ”. This definition is same with that of Jayadeva, the author of Candrāloka. Cirañjīva has given example following the format used by Jayadeva. Cirañjīva has arranged the definition in the first line and the example in the second line and all are in verse. Cirañjīva has said nothing regarding the term vṛtti.
Example of the vṛttyanuprāsa-alaṃkāra:—
jagajjagannivāsaścetpātā nā’ki vane’vane ||
“If Hari who is the shelter of the whole world be protector, then for the protection even in the forest, the world never becomes distressed”.
Notes: Here the word aka means distressed. In this verse the words jagat, jagat and vane vane with the same vowels and consonants are repeated. So it is an example of vṛttyanuprāsa.
Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
vṛttyanuprāsa (वृत्त्यनुप्रास).—m S In rhetoric. A division of the figure anuprāsa (Alliteration)--the return or repetition of one letter; as contrad. from chēkānuprāsa Return of a plurality of letters.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Vṛttyanuprāsa (वृत्त्यनुप्रास).—a kind of alliteration; see K. P.9.
Derivable forms: vṛttyanuprāsaḥ (वृत्त्यनुप्रासः).
Vṛttyanuprāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vṛtti and anuprāsa (अनुप्रास).
Vṛttyanuprāsa (वृत्त्यनुप्रास).—m.
(-saḥ) Alliteration suited to any style or expression. E. vṛtti and anuprāsa alliteration.
Vṛttyanuprāsa (वृत्त्यनुप्रास):—[=vṛtty-anuprāsa] [from vṛtty > vṛt] m. a kind of alliteration, frequent repetition of the same consonant, [Sāhitya-darpaṇa; Pratāparudrīya]
Vṛttyanuprāsa (वृत्त्यनुप्रास):—(vṛtti + a) m. Alliteration, häufige Wiederholung desselben Consonanten [Sāhityadarpana 635.] [PRATĀPAR. 72,b,1.] [Scholiast] zu [kāvyādarśa.1,56.]
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
Vṛttyanuprāsa (ವೃತ್ತ್ಯನುಪ್ರಾಸ):—[noun] (pros.) a kind of alliteration, frequent repetition of the same consonant.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Vṛttyanuprāsa (वृत्त्यनुप्रास):—n. a kind of alliteration;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Vritty, Anuprasa, Vritti.
Full-text: Anuprasa, Vrittyanupras.
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