Talking in ChandObaddha poetry.

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namaskAram:

The conversation about talking in chandas is interesting. One minor point though is
that vachanam was there much before metre came in. The oldest of upanishads are not
metrical. So conversation was of course easiest carried on without metre.

However, a pre-requisite for writing good peotry is the existence of "exact" synonyms.
This is necessary to express a different ideas in a certain metre. Or conversely, to express
the same idea differently at different times. For example, aSvamu, gurramu, turagamu for horse.

This concept is alien to english!!!! So what is the theory behind the evolution of synonyms?
Is it that they evolved over time starting from some subtle differences between them or was
it explicitly brought in for poetic usage. IMHO, this is redundancy. Why do you need ten
different words to refer to one animal?

thanks

mahesh

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