Sanskrit prosody
Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refer to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This field of study was central to the composition of the Vedas, the scriptural canons of Hinduism, so central that some later Hindu and Buddhist texts refer to the Vedas as Chandas.
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Sanskrit prosody
Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refer to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This field of study was central to the composition of the Vedas, the scriptural canons of Hinduism, so central that some later Hindu and Buddhist texts refer to the Vedas as Chandas.
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Le Chandas (IAST: chandas ; de ...... ques du sous-continent indien.
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Sanskrit prosody or Chandas re ...... any other metrical tradition.
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Metre is a veritable ship,
for those who want to go,
across the vast ocean of poetry.
Song and language
Children un ...... God himself truly understand.
There is no word without meter,
nor is there any meter without words.
When halved, two.
When unity sunya.
When sunya, two.
When halved, multiply itself .
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—Chandah Sutra 8.28-31
—Dandin, 7th century
—Natya Shastra
—Rajatarangini
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Le Chandas (IAST: chandas ; de ...... ques du sous-continent indien.
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Sanskrit prosody or Chandas re ...... refer to the Vedas as Chandas.
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Chandas
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Sanskrit prosody
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