Pingala

3rd–2nd century BC Indian mathematician and poet

Acharya Pingala (Sanskrit: पिङ्गल, romanized: Piṅgala; c. 3rd–2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian scholar, poet, grammarian and mathematician whose master work Chandaḥśāstra (Sanskrit: छन्दःशास्त्र, lit. 'A Treatise on Prosody'), also called the Pingala Sutras (Sanskrit: पिङ्गलसूत्राः, romanized: Piṅgalasūtrāḥ, lit. 'Pingala's Formulae'), is the foundational text of Chandas (prosody and metrics)—one of the six Vedāngas (auxiiiary science) of traditional Indian scholarship. The Chandaḥśāstra is a work of eight chapters written in the late Sūtra style, that relies on explanatory commentaries for full comprehension.

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