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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...
- 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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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unappealing skin. One day, Bindusara, his father,
asked the
ascetic Pingala-vatsajiva to
determine which of his sons was
worthy of
being his successor...
- text has
babru (babhru, "brown"),
parita (palita, "grey"), and
pinkara (
pingala, "red").
Their chief festival was the
celebration of the
solstice (vishuva)...
