kandaala andaalu

Venu Dasigi (vdasigi@mars.epm.ornl.gov)
Sat, 17 Aug 1996 14:47:52 -0400

I have been raking my brains over some of the apparent anolmalies
between the rules and the flow, and raamakRshNa gaaru's clarifications
are right on target. To me, it appears that the rules are only a
necessary conditions, but certainly not sufficient!

I have been playing a little with kandams in particular, and my
experience is reinforced by Sree pillalamarri's comments about the
correspondence (or a semblance thereof) between word breaks and gaNa
breaks. An easy way around the difficulty of writing kandams (well, for
a novice like me, anyway - it has been said that anybody can write them)
is to choose simple short words, preferably going with the gaNa breaks.
This is not always possible or even desirable, but perhaps that hasn't
been a bad prescription for myself. So here I go:

simpul padaalu malupulu
sompuga viluvalu kaligina kempulu yivigO
impuga sogasulu bOleDu
nimpukunE kandamulivi ninDuga tamalO

That gives me hope that kandams are a good candidate for writing poetry
in simple day-to-day language, possibly even including some common
English words as in conversational Telugu.

Here is another one I came up on a topic close to most Telugu Americans'
hearts; I think it is called "sarva laghu kandam" - the two ending
guruvus are necessary exceptions:

bharatapu viluvalu kaLalunu
sarigama tadhikiNalu namRta karamagu telugun
tarataramulu niluchuTa bhuvi
tiruguTa nijamani telupumu telugu amerikan

vENu

-- 
Venu Dasigi
Summer, 1996: Intelligent Systems Section
              Computer Science and Math Division
              Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MS-6364, P.O. Box 2008
              Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6364
vdasigi@mars.epm.ornl.gov


Later:        Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
              Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Ave
              Fairfield, CT 06432-1000
dasigi@shu.sacredheart.edu