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Vritta Ratnakara of Kedara Bhatta (14th Century CE) is one of the
most popular texts on Sanskrit prosody. Though there are many books on
Sanskrit prosody by eminent authors like Kalidasa, Kshemendra, etc,
Vritta Ratankara continues to be an essential text for Sanskrit
students.
A speciality of this work is that the definition and illustration of
a meter is given in one and the same verse. The verse defining a
particular metre is composed in that particular meter itself. This is
very helpful for a student of Sanskrit prosody.
Another speciality of this work is that it is very brief – there are
merely 136 verses. The author has covered all the prominent metres of
Sanskrit literature in these verses.
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