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Acharya Pingala (Sanskrit: पिङ्गल, romanized:
Piṅgala; c. 3rd–2nd
century BCE) was an
ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the
author of the Chandaḥśāstra...
- head, and are the ida on the left, the
sushumna in the centre, and the
pingala on the right.
Ultimately the goal is to
unblock these nadis to
bring liberation...
- were
first described in
Indian mathematics as
early as 200 BC in work by
Pingala on
enumerating possible patterns of
Sanskrit poetry formed from syllables...
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returned to his palace, he told the
story to Rani
Pingala and
asked her if she
would do the same. Rani
Pingala said that she
would die on
hearing the news itself...
- ISBN 978-0-691-12067-6. In the Chandah-sutra of
Pingala,
dating perhaps the
third or
second century BC, [ ...]
Pingala's use of a zero
symbol [śūnya] as a marker...
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number of
morae per verse.
Extant ancient manuals on
Chandas include Pingala's Chandah Sutra,
while an
example of a
medieval Sanskrit prosody manual...
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because of his
rough skin. One day,
Bindusara asked the
Ajivika ascetic Pingala-vatsajiva to
examine which of his sons was
worthy of
being his successor...
- as the 8th century. His work on
prosody builds on the Chhanda-sutras of
Pingala (4th
century BCE), and was the
basis for a 12th-century
commentary by Gopala...
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phonological structure (śabda-jāti). In the
tradition of
scholars like
Pingala, Kātyāyana was also
interested in mathematics. Here his text on the sulvasutras...
- Pranava." It is said to
represent the
nadis (psychic channels) Ida and
Pingala,
which meet the
central Sushumna nadi
before rising to the
crown chakra...
