prastara
प्रस्तार prastaraIn prosody, the systematic 'spreading out' or enumeration of every possible metrical pattern of a given length, set out by Pingala.
Where this term appears
- Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lock Lineages
And this is the reason why in every āgama the presentation of the extraction of mantras is preceded by the spreading out (prastara) of the matrka or of the malini." Every āgama .
- Keeping the Sound Treatise
A metre of a given number of syllables is therefore a string of lights and heavies, and Pingala gave a recursive procedure, the prastara or "spreading out," that generates every possible such string in order.