Pingala

<a href="/facts/Acharya/1RvXLqey">Acharya</a> Pingala was an ancient Indian poet and <a href="/facts/Indian_mathematics/l9f6ke00">mathematician</a>, and the author of the Chandaḥśāstra (<a href="/facts/Sanskrit_language/ychfjhlx">Sanskrit</a>: छन्दःशास्त्र, <a href="/facts/Literal_translation/0cF1oFRh">lit.</a> 'A Treatise on Prosody'), also called the Pingala-sutras (<a href="/facts/Sanskrit_language/ychfjhlx">Sanskrit</a>: पिङ्गलसूत्राः, <a href="/facts/Romanization_of_Sanskrit/N1NFy5A4">romanized</a>: Piṅgalasūtrāḥ, <a href="/facts/Literal_translation/0cF1oFRh">lit.</a> 'Pingala's Threads of Knowledge'), the earliest known treatise on <a href="/facts/Sanskrit_prosody/6Wjo0MEA">Sanskrit prosody</a>.
The Chandaḥśāstra is a work of eight chapters in the late <a href="/facts/S%C5%ABtra/2fuurf3z">Sūtra</a> style, not fully comprehensible without a commentary. It has been dated to the last few centuries BCE. In the 10th century CE, <a href="/facts/Halayudha/Neoa1qEV">Halayudha</a> wrote a commentary elaborating on the Chandaḥśāstra. According to some historians <a href="/facts/Maharishi/DFl23B45">Maharshi</a> Pingala was the brother of <a href="/facts/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini/C2brRvXB">Pāṇini</a>, the famous <a href="/facts/Vy%C4%81kara%E1%B9%87a/WIhAar17">Sanskrit grammarian</a>, considered the first <a href="/facts/Linguistic_description/Hs0halB8">descriptive linguist</a>. Another think tank identifies him as <a href="/facts/Patanjali/VpekjMkK">Patanjali</a>, the 2nd century CE scholar who authored Mahabhashya.

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