RE: Exception to gaNa vibhajana
Bachoti Rao (BRAO@atlas.niaid.nih.gov)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:28:19 -0500
Sri Mohana Rao wrote:
>Another question, why is there no mattEbha in
>Sanskrit or for that matter champakamaala or utpalamaala? Regards!
Some time back, Sri Sadananda posted a slokam written by his renowned
father Sri Kuntimaddi Sesha Sarma.
vara vRshaSaila dhAma nutanAma samasta suraih
lalita kaTAksha dAma navatAmarasOllasitam
murabhidurasthala sphurita koustubha pIThakRta
sthiti hRdayEcakAstu mamavastu nirasta tamah
The chandas, I do not know the name, is like champaka maala sans the
last four letters (viz., IUIU). There is so much beauty in that rhyme
even without the last few letters. So I wonder if the full versions
of cahmpaka maala and others are somewhere there in the Sanskrit
literature.
One more point in the above slokam relevant to our discussion. Tha in
pIThakRta is laghuvu.
Regards,
Bachoti Sridhara Rao