Re: Correction please!
Nasy Sankagiri (narayans@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:31:56 -0500 (EST)
I have been following this discussion with interest. Till this morning, Sri
Varigonda seemed to be fighting a losing battle, and boom - he bounces
back..
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>gaNapatiyai kavi pravara kalpanakun kaviyai suvighna bhanjanaam
>gaNapatiyai umAtanaya kamra guNOjjvala mUrtiyai bhuvin
>gaNapati saccidAtmaka jagadguru mUrti nitAnta yOgi, sat
>gaNapatiyai brOchu gAvuta sukha prachayimpu SatAvadhAnamun.
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>The first padam has 23 letters (2 extra) and the last padam has 1 letter
>extra. 4th padam is okay if we remove 'yai' from 'gaNapatiyai'.
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>The point is both these padams take the letters 'vi' in 'kavi pravara'
>in 1st padam and 'kha' in 'sukha prachayimpu' as guruvus even though the
>next letter has ra-vattu and starts a new word.
>
Point well taken, sir, and that point is definitely in your favor. I have
two things to say.
1) Correction: As you rightly guessed, avadhaani gaaru retracted the 'yai'
from the last line before completing the poem. I consulted my notes.
2) If I may suggest something to resolve this conflict of laghu/guru, after
making all the usual disclaimers that I am no chandO pundit, etc. The
confusion is probably creeping in due to extensive use of samskRta padAlu
in telugu poems - samskRta padAlu have the habit of uniting not only by
means of sandhi, but also by samAsam. Say two words are united in a
samAsam, but writing in telugu, we write them as two separate
words..wouldn't that answer this question? Taking this example at hand,
'kavi pravara' - if this is a samAsam (I don't know: I don't even know what
it means), then it is one word and 'vi' is a guruvu. If not, then they are
two words and 'vi' is a laghuvu. In the case of the root cause of all this
discussion, 'sahajamagu prEma', that is not a samAsam (I know that much!),
so there is no way 'gu' can be counted as guruvu. Does that provide any
'samanvayam' to the two schools of thought?
While we are talking about SatAvadhAnam, someone asked for the samskRta
campakamAla form that avdhAnam; Here it is:
The pRchchaka (varNana) asked for a campakamAla in samskRtam on Adi Sankara.
avadhAni gAru commented that there is no campakamAla in samskRtam, and then
there are no yati/prAsa, but he'd recite one with all the fixin's. (muDO
pAdam civara, Sankara anE mATa virigi nAlugO pAdamlOki dorlindi -
samskRtamlO kudaradu).
sphurita mahatva tatva rasa sundara mUrtirahO virAjatE
varajita maNDanO vijaya vAGbhava kIrti ratrabhOh
sthira mahitAdwaya vicitra viVEka vibhAga pUrNa San-
-kara guru ratra pUrNa rasa kandhara mUrtirahO virAjitAm.
Regards
Nasy