RE: Chandas
Bachoti Rao (BRAO@atlas.niaid.nih.gov)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 16:19:10 -0500
The discussion started with gu being guruvu in sahajamagu prEma.
No matter what, this gu cannot be a guruvu. I asked Suba Rao garu
for examples like that because I believed there won't be any. I still
feel that it is easier to look at an example (provded it is not a
mistake
or exception by great writers) rather than coining our own
phraseology
whic makes life more complicated.
The distinction between samaasas and non samaasas is important
because
that determines how we should pronounce (not how we like to
pronounce.
It is not whether we want to read fast or slow).
Sri Mohana Rao pointed out that the words in
# dhvani krama pravartita pracanDa tAnDava SSivah #
cannot be separated. It is a single samaasam an we have no choice of
breaking it.
> ps: iMtakee naa saMtakaMlOni raavulO 'vu' guruvaa? laghuvaa?
adi laghuvE! guruvu gaari pErulO chOTu chEsukunnaa vrAlutO sakhyam
marI anta prayOjanakAri kAlEkapOyindi. Similarly Du in ataDu vyApAri
will not be guruvu. Mohana Rao wrote about kaali vrELLu. chEti
vrELLInA
antE. With all the rules either quoted or formulated, really there is
no
freedom to treat a letter in both ways. There is a differnce between
samaasas in Sanskrit and compound words in telugu which are not
actually compound. padam virigitE laghuvu laghuvE! taravAta aksharam
dwitwamInA samyuktamInA.
I appreciate Subba Rao for giving the interesting example of
mangaLArati jyOti.
Basically, this is not a standard samaasam and mangaLArati and
jyOti are two words. (We can have another nice discussion about that
if some disagree). So, ti here is a laghuvu. In mammula
svArthabuddhitO,
la can never be a guruvu because these are two words.
Finally, I believe that poets have not exercised any freedom in making
aletter laghuvu or guruvu. My knowledge is limited too. So I would
like
to see valid case where it can be both. The only possibility is
probably
some chitrakavitvam where the words can be read in different ways!
Regards,
Bachoti Sridhara Rao