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  2. Alankāra - Wikipedia

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    Datilla discussed 13 alankaras, Bharata Muni presented 33, Sarngadeva described 63 alankaras, while mid medieval scholars presented numerous more. [1] The Indian music tradition classifies alankara as rational or irrational, wherein irrational alankara being those that cannot be reduced to a fixed scale degree pattern.

  3. Alankara Shastra - Wikipedia

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    The Alankara Shastra is the traditional Indian science of aesthetics that deals with the principles and techniques of literary composition and ornamentation. It is an important aspect of Indian literary criticism and aims to enhance the beauty and expressiveness of literary works.

  4. List of online dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser.They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.

  5. Incunable - Wikipedia

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    Incunable is the anglicised form of incunabulum, [6] reconstructed singular of Latin incunabula, [7] which meant "swaddling clothes", or "cradle", [8] which could metaphorically refer to "the earliest stages or first traces in the development". [9]

  6. Tsundoku - Wikipedia

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    There are suggestions to use the word in the English language and include it in dictionaries like the Collins Dictionary. [4] The American author and bibliophile A. Edward Newton commented on a similar state in 1921. [5] In his 2007 book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term "antilibrary", which has been compared with tsundoku. [6]

  7. List of biographical dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Bingenheimer, Marcus, A Biographical Dictionary of the Japanese Student-Monks of the Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries, 2001. ISBN 978-3-89129-693-6. Hisamatsu, Sen'ichi, Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature, Kodansha International Ltd. in collaboration with the International Society for Educational Information, 1976. ISBN 0 87011 253 8.

  8. Nudurupati Venkanna - Wikipedia

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    His Raghunathivamu is a Sanskrit work on Alankaras and dedicated to Venkanna's contemporary and patron Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman. Parvathi Kalyanamu is a Yakshagana on the marriage of Shiva and Parvathi while Mallupuranamu is a Telugu work on the Malla community, the only one of its kind.

  9. Shruti (music) - Wikipedia

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    A Carnatic concert. The shruti or śruti is the smallest interval of pitch that the human ear can detect and a singer or musical instrument can produce. [1] [2] The concept is found in ancient and medieval Sanskrit texts such as the Natya Shastra, the Dattilam, the Brihaddeshi, and the Sangita Ratnakara.