Avasthitaka: 1 definition
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Avasthitaka 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.
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
: Journal of the University of Bombay Volume V: Apabhramsa metres (2)Avasthitaka (啶呧さ啶膏啶ムた啶む) (also Utthakka) is the name of a 肠补迟耻峁补诲颈 metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhra峁兣沘 bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonu艣膩sana, Kavidarpa峁嘺, V峁泃taj膩tisamuccaya and Svayambh奴chandas.鈥擴tthakka (Avasthitaka) has 17 尘腻迟谤腻蝉 in each of their four lines, with 17 尘腻迟谤腻蝉 divided into groups of 5, 5, 5, 2 尘腻迟谤腻蝉, [?where however, the third 肠补迟耻谤尘腻迟谤补 must be of the Jaga峁嘺 type (ISI) and the fourth must consist of 2 long letters.]
Chandas (啶涏え啷嵿う啶膏) 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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