Re: Chandas
Subbarao Varigonda (varigond@cems.umn.edu)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:30:47 -0600 (CST)
> Hi, The line dhvani-krama-pravartita-prachanDa-tAnDavashshivah
> can be rewriteen as dhvaniH kramaH pravartitaH prachanDa-tAnDavaH shivaH.
Quite right. there are hidden visargas everywhere in the sthotram thus
making it difficult to observe the effect of a dvitva.
I wrote down the sthotram from audio cassette and checked the entire sthotram
for chandas. I feel I haven't got two lines of it correctly since they don't
fit 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 pattern. (is the pattern right?). All the stanzas
except the last one fit this pattern.
1. dhananjayA utikRta pracanDa pancaSAyakE
^^^^^^^
Is it 'utIkRta' or 'utikruta' so that we can get 12 12 from this word?
utikRta gives 1112.
2. imam hi nitya mukta mutta mOttamam sthavam
This has 2 letters short.
Could you send me corrections?
> syllables. In the case of kaalivrELLapai, when we speak it out, I feel
> there is no emphasis on li. It is uttered as kaali vrELLapai.
> Good day! Regards! - J. K. Mohana Rao
So, the point is it is that stress ('oodi palukuTa' mariyu 'otti palukuTa')
that is important and not whether the words form a samaasa or not.
Earlier, Sri Bachoti Rao wrote, within a samaasa, guruvu must be taken
because it's a single word and when it's not a samaasa, you have to take it
as laghuvu.
There is another poem by karuNaSrI (pushpavilApam again) where I found
laghuvu taken inside a samaasa. So, whether it's a samaasa or not is not the
question. What is important is whether we can pause before the compound
letter or not. If the compound letter starts a new word/dhAtu (even in a
samaasa), I feel we can pause and so we can take it as laghuvu. Similarly,
if needed, can I read it fast without pause and take it as guruvu saying
it's a single word?
poem by karuNaSrI:
from http://www.ee.msstate.edu/~aravind/sanka.html/telugu/Karunasree/pushp1.html
akkaTa! haayi mEmu mahishaasuru lemdaro naalgu prakkalan
prakkala miida callukoni maa pasimEnulu paaDukaaLLatO
drokkucu dorli - dorli - marurO judyaanane vaaDi vattalai
rekkalu jaaripOn pariharimturu mammula pemTadibbapai.
In the first padam, "nAlgu prakkalu" is a (dvigu)samaasam. Yet, 'lgu'
preceding 'pra' is taken as laghuvu.
regards,
subbarao
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