Lakshminatha-bhatta, Lakṣmīnātha-bhaṭṭa: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Lakṣmīnātha-bhaṭṭa can be transliterated into English as Laksminatha-bhatta or Lakshminatha-bhatta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureLakṣmīnātha-bhaṭṭa (लक्ष्मीना�-भट्ट) (C. 1600 C.E.) or ṣmīٳṭṭ was a renowned scholar on metrics. He and his son Candraśekhara have composed many works on Sanskrit and Prakrit prosody. He was the son of Rāya (Rāyaṇṇa) Bhaṭṭa, grandson of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa and great grandson of Rāmacandra Bhaṭṭa. He was also father of Candraśekhara Bhaṭṭa. Lakṣmīnātha has mentioned about his family in the beginning of his commentary on Prākṛtapiṅgala.

Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumLakṣmīnātha bhaṭṭa (लक्ष्मीना� भट्ट) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—father of Candraśekhara (Vṛttamauktika). Io. 2157.
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Lakṣmīnātha bhaṭṭa (लक्ष्मीना� भट्ट):—son of Rāyaṇṇa Bhaṭṭa (Rāyabhaṭṭa), son of Nārāyaṇa, son of Rāmacandra, composed in 1600: Piṅgalārthapradīpa.
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Lakṣmīnātha bhaṭṭa (लक्ष्मीना� भट्ट):—the author of the Piṅgalārthapradīpa: Udāharaṇacandrikā.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Lakshminatha, Bhatta.
Full-text (+10): Dushkaroddhara, Gopalarcanacandrika, Candrashekhara, Ahivara, Markata, Pingalarthapradipika, Matsya, Karabha, Shyena, Shardula, Marala, Undura, Bidala, Vyaghra, Shunaka, Madakala, Udaharanamanjari, Kacchapa, Sarpa, Manduka.
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