In India, the science of prosody, had its beginnings in the Vedic period and has been held in high
esteem, being regarded as a vedāṅga or a limb of the Veda. The earliest work on prosody was by
Piṅgala which is generic and on which all the subsequent works are based. It is an amazing fact
that this early work already deals with matters relating to problems of combinatorics. The main
aim of this paper is to give a brief description of this work of Piṅgala and discuss in detail the mathematics arising out of it.
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