kandam telugunakandam
candam yelamaka randam cilukunu Dendam
cindunu kavitA gandham
vindam vInula bandham viriyaravindam
Where does this violate the kanda rules? In the sixth gaNa of each pAda
(two lines constituting a pAda, in my arbitrary nomenclature), not being
a ja- or na-la. Of course, he has a-priori silenced would-be critics
by declaring his intention to violate this rule.
However, the new structure has its own, albeit different, gait. If you
consider the first four lines only to the extent they end with the
-dam, -ham words, they are essentially the same. And the rest of
the two longer lines are the same. This makes up its own gait.
There are structures similar to kandam. Tadigadapa Syamala Rao mentioned
Arya, in a prior post. In Tirumala Desikachary's works, he often uses a
structure he calls as "kanda-tulyamu", which has one more guruvu in the
longer lines (22 mAtras):
mandAra hAra manDita
sundara vakshunaku, jalaja sundara cakshunakun,
vandAru nikhila nirjara
sandOhAvana samartha cAru kaTAkshunanun
or
pogaDalu ponnalu pUcen
bogaDalu ponnalu viriyaka pUrvame pUcen mO-
dugu lA mOdugu ponnalu
pogaDalu pUvaka munupuga bUcen guruvakamul
(As palana said in a recent post, Desikachary would be an asset and a
great arbiter of candas, literature related questions for this group.
I will request him to join the group, in a separate mail)
These two poems are from his recent work, "mahASilpi jakkana caritramu".
I used to think a kanda padyam is a kanda padyam. It seems that
eskimoes in Alaska have a score or more words for snow, depending
on the nature of it. In the book on candassu in Andhra mahA bhAratamu,
SrI pATibanDa mAdhava Sarma describes a score or more different types
of kanda, depending on various features.
For example, if lines end in complete words, or there is a word-wrap
into the next line.
Ramakrishna