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The Chando-Vedanga of Pingala

By Mano Mohan Ghosh

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 727–734English

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  • “The date of the work on Sanskrit prosody which 15 ascribed to Piagala is uncertain.”
  • “Therefore it may be concluded that chapters 11 and 141 of the extant Pingala-sTéras constitute the original work of Pibgala on the Vedic prosody.”

Works cited in this article

  1. Weber, Indische ૭૮૮૦૭૪, ૪11.
  2. Weber, Indian Literature, p. ૦૦.
  3. Winternitz’s Geschichie der indischen Litera-fur, Band 111, p.
  4. K, De, Sanskrit. Poetics, pp. 230.
  5. Macdonell’s Vedic Grammar for Students, pp. 444 5.

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Texts & works

  • Nirukta 18
  • Chando-Vedanga
  • Bharata-Natyabastra
  • NidanasGira
  • Rk-pratisdkhya
  • Anuksramanis

Dynasties, sects & groups

  • Atreyt school
  • Rg-veda

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Vol. 7 · No. 4
629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan GhoshCurrent article735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda779–782Bibliographical Notes

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