alleryPingala, who may have found Pascal's triangle, wrote a Sanskrit treatise on which subject?
AProsody
BMedicine
CAstronomy
DGrammar
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Prosody
1. Pingala enumerated syllabic combinations in his work.
2. His Sanskrit treatise was on prosody, the study of poetic metre.
3. Medicine, astronomy and grammar belong to other scholars such as Sushruta, Lagadha and Panini.
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