Re: Correction please!
Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri (pkrishna@ARL.MIL)
Tue, 25 Feb 97 19:26:42 EST
I am a little busy at the moment, but would like to post some excerpts from
"Andhra mahAbhAratamu - chandahSilpamu" by pATibanDa mAdhava Sarma, and
another book (the title escapes me at the moment) of essays on chandassu
by kOvela sampatkumArAcArya.
I think I may have read a passage in the first book that supports the contentionthat a laghuvu before a rEphAksharam MAY remain a laghuvu, or change into a
guruvu. This applies only to the compound-consonants where the second consonat
(the main one, though in telugu it is shortened to a vottu) is of ra-persuasion.
I understand the rule behind the vidhRta, vijRmbhaNa, ... words. Yet, I
believe (could be a wrong belief!) that I may have read some poems where
that was not the case. Now, it could be mistake of the poet, which doesn't
create a new rule, or amend the present rule.
In an earlier post where I referred to "orthodox grammarians", I am not
putting them down (if you follow the dhwani there). It was a back-door attempt
to say that the so-called "rules" are merely "codifications" of observed
phenomenon. Just as Newton did not "dictate" that every action shall have
an equal and opposite reaction. He merely observed the fact, noted it,
and codified it into a succinct rule/law.
I believe a couple of posts said this, in not so many words, including
Nagulapalli Srinivas.
Despite no out-and-out "flames", I do detect an under-current of "cirAku"
at each other's views. As VSR said, let us pursue this only with the view of
getting at a better understanding of the process, and not to prove our
own hypothesis. If necessary, we can carry this discussion off-the-net, between a half-a-dozen or so interested parties. I see that it is already giving a
headache to the likes of vElUri venkatESwara rAvu. (It took me a while
to get to that opinion, carefully reading the pseudo-metrical structure
in which he said it. teliyaka aDugutAnu, chandassunu vekkirincaDAniki
pOtU, aa chandO-baggage mOsukupOvaTamenduku?)
Ramakrishna