RE: Correction please!
Bachoti Rao (BRAO@atlas.niaid.nih.gov)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:25:29 -0500
Sri Subba Rao Varigonda wrote:
>If you don't like this to be discussed on telusa, may I request you to
>give me your personal email?
I didn't say anything about not liking to discuss this on telusa. If you want
to send me email, you are most welcome. The address is in the header.
>Could you tell me what kind of example you are expecting me to provide
>in order to validate my point? I don't have a clear idea what you are
>considering as incorrect in the statement I made!
Simple. Authentic examples in which usages like sahajamu prEma,
treat mu as guruvu. Because yous said that it can be treated as guruvu,
I am asking for other examples. (or Du in ataDu vyApAri as guruvu or
vi in kavipravara as laghuvu).
>Even within a samasam, I think I can find poems where both laghu and
>guru are allowed to be taken for a preceding letter.
>Or, in a non-samaasam, I can try to find a usage where precding letter is
>taken as guruvu.
>Is that what you are looking for from me?
You made the claim. So please fortify your argument with examples. Then
we can discuss more definitively.
>The rules are unambiguous! Quite right. That is my point too.
>But does the rule allow freedom or not?
I think laghuvu and guruvu are not the domains where you want to exercise
freedom because that defeats the very purpose of writing in chandas.
>Could you evaluate the following statements please?
>1. The letter preceding a non-repha dvitvaakshara of a new word can be
> taken as laghu or guruvu.
>2. The letter preceding any dvitvAkshara within the same word must be guruvu.
>3. The letter preceding a repha dvitvaakshara of a new word can be taken as
> laghuvu or guruvu.
>depending on what you conider incorrect, I can look for that usage.
Subba Rao garu! This is not fair. You are asking me to make a statement
so you can go and search for usages that contradict my statement. Rather,
it is easier to look at specific usages.
Regards,
Bachoti Sridhara Rao