Matrasamaka, Matra-samaka, Mātrāsamaka: 7 definitions
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In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature1) Mātrāsamaka (मात्रासमक) is a type of mātrāvṛtta (quantitative verse) described in the Mātrāsamakaprakaraṇa section of the second chapter of Kedārabhaṭṭa’s Vṛttaratnākara. The Vṛttaratnākara is considered as most popular work in Sanskrit prosody, because of its rich and number of commentaries. Kedārabhaṭṭa (C. 950-1050 C.E.) was a celebrated author in Sanskrit prosody.
2) Mātrāsamaka (मात्रासमक) is the name of a Sanskrit metre (chandas) to which Hemacandra (1088-1173 C.E.) assigned the alternative name of Toṭaka in his auto-commentary on the second chapter of the Chandonuśāsana. Hemacandra gives these alternative names for the metres by other authorities (like Bharata), even though the number of gaṇas or letters do not differ.
3) Mātrāsamaka (मात्रासमक) refers to one of the thirty mātrāvṛtta (quantitative verse) mentioned in the 331st chapter of the Agnipurāṇa. The Agnipurāṇa deals with various subjects viz. literature, poetics, grammar, architecture in its 383 chapters and deals with the entire science of prosody (e.g., the mātrā-samaka metre) in 8 chapters (328-335) in 101 verses in total.
Source: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)Mātrāsamaka (मात्रासमक) is the name of a catuṣpadi metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhraṃśa bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Mātrāsamaka has 16 mātrās in each of their four lines, whose 9th mātra must be represented by a short letter and whose last letter must always be a long one
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMātrāsamaka (मात्रासमक).—Name of a class of metres; see App.
Derivable forms: mātrāsamakaḥ (मात्रासमकः).
Mātrāsamaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mātrā and samaka (समक).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMātrāsamaka (मात्रासमक):—[=mātrā-samaka] [from mātrā > mā] Name of a class of metres, [Colebrooke]
[Sanskrit to German]
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
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusMātrāsamaka (ಮಾತ್ರಾಸಮಕ):—[noun] (pros.) one of the varieties of verses that are governed by prosodic rules regarding number and kinds of groups of syllables which have specific combination of prosodic units.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Partial matches: Samaka, Matra.
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Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Page 257 < [Volume 15 (1911)]
Ganitatilaka (Sanskrit text and English introduction) (by H. R. Kapadia)
World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
Critical review of ashtanga hridayam as per chhanda shastra (sanskrit prosody) < [2019: Volume 8, November issue 12]
Agni Purana (by N. Gangadharan)
Studies in Indian Literary History (by P. K. God)
25, 26. Date of Kedarabhatta’s Vrittaratnakara < [Volume 1 (1945)]
Mudrarakshasa (literary study) (by Antara Chakravarty)
1. Chandas, the science of rhythm < [Chapter 4 - Employment of Chandas in Mudrārākṣasa]