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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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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namely that the
three most
important nadis are the Ida on the left, the
Pingala on the right, and the
Sushumna in the
centre connecting the base chakra...
- to the Yogis,
there are two
nerve currents in the
spinal column,
called Pingalâ and Idâ, and a
hollow canal called Sushumnâ
running through the spinal...
