Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.10

c12.10

**Chhandas.** The second Vedāṅga is *Chhandas* or *Metre*, to which there are many scattered references in the *Brāhmaṇas*. But it is in the *Sūtras* (e.g. the *Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra*, the *Rigveda Prātiśākhya*, and the *Nidāna Sūtra*) that an attempt is made to arrange the archaic metres systematically.