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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 Chhandaḥśāstra...
- 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...
- 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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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...
- 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...
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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...
- chakra, or crown. This
energy is said to
travel along the ida (left),
pingala (right) and central, or
sushumna nadi - the main
channels of
pranic energy...
- Halāyudha (Sanskrit: हलायुध)
wrote the Mṛtasañjīvanī, a
commentary on
Pingala's Chandaḥśāstra, was an
Indian Mathematician and poet who
lived and worked...
- 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...
