Vrittabandha, Vṛttabandha, Vritta-bandha: 4 definitions
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Vrittabandha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Vṛttabandha can be transliterated into English as Vrttabandha or Vrittabandha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureVṛttabandha (वृत्तबन्ध) is the name of a text dealing with Sanskrit prosody (chandas) for which no authorship could be traced. Usually the authors mention their names, parentage etc. in the colophon of their works. But there are certain works in which, the author leaves no impression of his identity. The Vṛtta-bandha is mentioned in the “New Catalogus Catalogorum” XXXI. p. 7.
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 dictionaryVṛttabandha (वृत्तबन्ध).—metrical composition.
Derivable forms: vṛttabandhaḥ (वृत्तबन्धः).
Vṛttabandha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vṛtta and bandha (बन्ध).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVṛttabandha (वृत्तबन्ध):—[=vṛtta-bandha] [from vṛtta > vṛt] m. metrical composition
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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.
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Partial matches: Vritta, Bandha.
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Full-text: Vrittabandhojjhita.
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