A Brief Study of Chandas in Sanskrit

Author(s)	Santanu Chakrabortty
Country	India
Abstract	Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This field of study was central to the composition of the Vedas, the scriptural canons of Hinduism, so central that some later Hindu and Buddhist texts refer to the Vedas as Chandas. The Chandas, as developed by the Vedic schools, were organized around seven major metres, and each had its own rhythm, movements and aesthetics. Sanskrit metres include those based on a fixed number of syllables per verse, and those based on fixed number of morae per verse. Extant ancient manuals on Chandas include Pingala'sChandah Sutra, while an example of a medieval Sanskrit prosody manual is KedaraBhatta'sVrittaratnakara. The most exhaustive compilations of Sanskrit prosody describe over 600 metres. This is a substantially larger repertoire than in any other metrical tradition.
Keywords	Chandas, Prosody, Metrics, Syllable parsing, Vedic metres, classical metres.
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024
Published On	2024-04-30
Cite This	A Brief Study of Chandas in Sanskrit - Santanu Chakrabortty - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.19092
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.19092
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gts4qs

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