Vrittaratnakaravyakhya, Vṛttaratnākaravyākhyā, Vrittaratnakara-vyakhya: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Vṛttaratnākaravyākhyā can be transliterated into English as Vrttaratnakaravyakhya or Vrittaratnakaravyakhya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureVṛttaratnākaravyākhyā (वृत्तरत्नाकरव्याख्या) is the name of various commentaries on the Vṛttaratnākara of Kedārabhaṭṭa (C. 950-1050 C.E.), who was a celebrated author in Sanskrit prosody The various authors that produced a work named Vṛttaratnākaravyākhyā are as follows: 1) (Śāradātilaka) Nṛsiṃha Sūri, 2) Pūrṇānandakavi. The Vṛttaratnākara is considered as most popular work in Sanskrit prosody, because of its rich and number of commentaries.
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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVṛttaratnākaravyākhyā (वृत्तरत्नाकरव्याख्या):—[=vṛtta-ratnākara-vyākhyā] [from vṛtta-ratnākara > vṛtta > vṛt] f. Name of Comm.
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: Vrittaratnakara, Vyakhya.
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Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
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