Varnacchandashekhara, Varṇacchandaśekhara, Varnacchanda-shekhara: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Varṇacchandaśekhara can be transliterated into English as Varnacchandasekhara or Varnacchandashekhara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Varnachchhandashekhara.
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureVarṇacchandaśekhara (वर्णच्छन्दशेखर) is the name of a work ascribed to Candraśekhara related to the topics of Sanskrit prosody (chandas) but having an unknown period of composition.
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.
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Partial matches: Sekhara.
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