AIR samasyA pUraNA yatnamulu

Srinivasa Dokka (sdokka@st6000.sct.edu)
Thu, 1 Feb 1996 21:11:46 -0500 (EST)

SrIyutulu mAdhav, nAsy gAri comments and the discussion on one of my
earlier attempts on "rAvaNu jEre sIta.." were interesting. As SRI nAsy
said, pAvani has a profound meaning of pavana sutuDu, hanumantuDu and
doesn't refer/should not be made referring to "sIta" in this context
at all. Doesn't it reflect the same meaning when found in names like,
SrI VishwanAtha pAvani SAstry ( ||| hanumaccAstry) etc.. I can't
recapitulate any padyamu where 'pAvani' comes in this context, but do
you remember "vinuDu vinuDu rAmAyaNa gAtha.." song from lavakuSa ?

It goes as - "A janani SirOmaNi, andukonE pAvani, ...... sAgenu rivu
rivvu mani...".

It was a nice post from surEsh on those pada+artha padArtha samvAdam..:)
I don't think Sanskrit is excused from misinterpretations either, I
still remember the discussion on that first SlOka in raGuvamSa.
"samskRtamlO "'i'-kArAnta Sabdamulu strIlinga SabdamulanuTa" is ONLY a
convention and NOT a hard and fast rule and "pAvani" is different
from "rajani, Amani (Mostly used as strIlinga Sabdamulu, but could
also be used as words of napumsaka linga with context substantiation )
and in the same way, vAruNi doesn't necessarily mean varuNa patni,
it means anything(could be used to any gender) that originated from
varuNa. But when you say pavanaja ==> refers to strI linga and
pavanajuDu, ofcourse refers to pumlinga. These are just my opinions
and may be commented/corrected upon.

Anyway, Coming to SrI mAdhav's post on "AIR samasyalu..",

>> If you remember AIR (All India Radio) broadcasts "samasyA puraNalu".
>> I thought you may be interested in them. Hence I am posting
>> 4 out of them. Please try attempting them.

Thank you Sir. Please keep them coming and take time to continue posting
samasyalu from that list too, and I hope many people here will take pleasure
in joining me appreciating your effort in bringing those VERY INTERESTING
samasyalu to all of us..

and your post has a little foot-note which says -

>> PS: I shall give puraNas after reading from Vissagaru, Sivanandagaru,
>> tatagaru and other mahAnubhAvulu.

I am not speaking for the first three and DO NOT want to be mistaken into
the last category also..:-) (ikkaDa mAdhav gAru, nA dRshTilO mahAnuBAvulu
anTE "mahA anuBavamu" unnavALLu anE artham lO vADArani anukonTA, I can
happily be excluded from that 'elite' list..:-) Your comment reminds me
of one interestingly twisted proverb which goes as "andarU mahAnuBAvulE,
endarikani vandanamulu ??", Can't recollect who coined it though. (Is it
gollapUDi mArutI rAv ?? - I think surEsh kolicAla might recollect this
faster..)

Anyway, as a modest amateur who takes pleasure in appreciating CandO
badhdha padya racana and "konDokocO prayatnAnandam kala pApanigA..(Yes,
pApaDu means biDDaDu..:))", here are my attempts at those samasyalu -

1) SaSakamu kolvu deeragane sAmajamokkaDu mrokkedAnikin

Tried for a quirk on the current political scenario...

daSagana dAruNammu kada, sanGamu nan dadhikAra mOhitul
yaSa dharulairi pAmarulu, vij~ulu vAriki jElu koTTu du
rdaSa yidi mArcagA valayu munduku ranD, iTa rAjakIyamun
SaSakamu kolvudIra gane sAmaja mokkaTi mrokke dAnikin..

2) tApamudeerpa malliyalu tAmaralETiki nETi rOjunan.

I don't think this would attract any objections from 'censor board'..

cUpula mallelE ceragu necceli mOmaravinda sAmyamou,
sompagu janTagA praNaya sImala nElaga nEmi kAvalen ??
yimpagu manda hAsamuna kempulu cindeDi mOvi tEne hR
dtApamu dIrpaga, malliyalu tAmara lETiki nETi rOjunan..

3) kavitala vinuvAru nEDu kalarE jagatin

Quipping on the present status of kavitAdaraNa -

Bavitanu tondara cEyucu,
navatA smRtulandu maruva nANyata viluval,
yuvatara mETiki canunika ??
kavitala vinu vAru nEDu kalarE jagatin..

4) varamE keeDu ponarcenaMcu madilO vApOye nirveeryatan

and a fable of 'spare the rod and spoil the child'..:)

baruvai talliki tanDrikin perige gArAbAla mArAjugan,
karigE kammani dRSyamai bratuku kAlAtIta mayyE taTin,
Saramai grucceDi bAlyamun talaci cintincen PalambETikin ??
varamE kIDu yonarcenancu madilO vApOye nirvIryatan..

Later, I'll post my attempts at the following two samasyalu that I
pos(t)ed sometime back.

# 14 - vinta vAvi varusa telugu nEla... (Ata veladi)

# 15 - AviDa kAlu jAreniTa vEgame rAride vEDka jUDagan... (utpala mAla)

anta varakU, I await your comments/corrections/suggestions and more
samasyalu & pUraNAlu.

selavA(E) mari..

regards..

- Ram (Ramabhadra Dokka from sdokka@st6000.sct.edu)