A work on Pāḷi prosody, in six chapters, partly prose, partly verse, written by Saṅgharakkhita Thera of Sri Lanka.
It is based on works dealing with Sanskrit prosody — e.g., of Piṅgala — and has borrowed their terms and method of treatment. There exist several Commentaries on the work, chief of which are the Vuttodaya pañcikā (or Chandosāratthavikāsinī) by Saddhammañāṇa and Subcommentaries (ṭīkā) by Vepullabuddhi of Pagan, and Navavimalabuddhi or Cūḷavimalabuddhi of Panyā. Gv.61, 64, 70; Svd.1210; P.L.C.198 f; Bode, op.cit., 26, 27, 28.