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2. Sanskrit prosody - Wikipedia

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   Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. [1] It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. [1] This field of study was central to the composition of the Vedas, the scriptural canons of Hinduism; in fact, so central that some later Hindu and Buddhist texts refer to the Vedas as Chandas.

3. Laghu Parashari - Wikipedia

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   Laghu Parashari, also known as Jataka Chandrika, is an important treatise on Vimshottari dasha system and is based on Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra.Written in Sanskrit in the usual Sloka format, it consists of forty-two verses divided into five chapters.

4. Laghu-Prabandha-Saṅgraha - Wikipedia

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   Laghu-Prabandha-Saṅgraha is a 13th century Sanskrit-language collection of stories (prabandhas) from India. An anonymous work, it features stories about several Jain authors and royal patrons, mainly from the Chaulukya kingdom of present-day Gujarat .

5. Martin Wickramasinghe - Wikipedia

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   Shortly thereafter he began a campaign to raise literary standards for the Sinhalese reading public with work such as Sahityodaya Katha (1932), Vichara Lipi (1941), Guttila Geetaya (1943) and Sinhala Sahityaye Nageema (1946) in which he evaluated the traditional literally heritage according to set rules of critical criteria formed by ...

6. Katha (storytelling format) - Wikipedia

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   Katha (or Kathya) is an Indian style of religious storytelling, performances of which are a ritual event in Hinduism. It often involves priest -narrators ( kathavachak or vyas ) who recite stories from Hindu religious texts , such as the Puranas , the Ramayana or Bhagavata Purana , followed by a commentary ( Pravachan ).

7. Shri Guru Charitra - Wikipedia

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   The Shri Guru Charitra is a book based on the life of Shri Nrusimha Saraswati (a.k.a Narasimha Saraswati), written by the 15th-16th century poet Shri Saraswati Gangadhar. The book is based on the life of Shri Narshimha Saraswati, his philosophy and related stories. The language used is the 14-15th century Marathi.

8. Naradiya Purana - Wikipedia

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   For example, chapter 1.2 extols Buddha. [6] This contrasts with Kurma Purana which is disdainful of Buddhism without mentioning Buddha , [ 23 ] but similar to the praise of Buddha in other major Puranas such as chapter 49 of the Agni Purana , chapter 2.5.16 of the Shiva Purana , chapter 54 of the Matsya Purana and various minor Puranas.

9. Atthakatha - Wikipedia

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   Commentaries by Dhammapala on seven books of the Khuddaka Nikaya. Four commentaries by various authors on four other books of the Khuddaka Nikaya. In addition, the following are included in one or both of the other two editions: the Burmese Chatthasangayana edition (a list of contents can be found in Thein Han 1981) and the Sinhalese Simon ...