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
- 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.