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Etymology
From मधु (mádhu, “sweet”) + छन्दस् (chándas, “hymn”), literally “whose hymns are sweet”.
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Proper noun
मधुच्छन्दस् • (madhucchándas) stem, m
- Madhuchhanda, son of Vishwamitra, and the composer of the 1st sukta of the first mandala of the Rigveda.
c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE,
Rāmāyaṇa 1.62.13:
- मुनेस्तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा मधुच्छन्दादयः सुताः।
साभिमानं नरश्रेष्ठ सलीलमिदमब्रुवन्॥- munestad vacanaṃ śrutvā madhucchandādayaḥ sutāḥ.
sābhimānaṃ naraśreṣṭha salīlamidamabruvan. - Hearing the aforesaid exhortation of Viśvāmitra, O jewel among men, his sons, of whom Madhucchandā was the eldest, proudly and lightly replied as follows
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