I am confused and completely lost. I have sincerely tried to make an
intelligent connection between chaMdassu and saMgeetaM. The common
thread for both, according to Sri Prabhakar's thesis, as I understand
involves the intricacies of rhyme and rhythm.
All along, I thought for one of them, rhyme and rhythm are absolutely
necessary and for the other, they more often than not are hurdles. And to
circumvent these hurdles, one adds a lot of unnecessary baggage of words,
sometimes making the readers' heads spin. I remember an ancient post related
to this aspect,- rhyme and rhythm in general in poetry,- by Chandrasekhar
Kanneganti, that made a lot of sense.
Well! My ignorance and incompetence are to be blamed for my confusion!
However, I take this opportunity to cite two quotes, that may at the
ourset, appear farfetched, and end this post.
The first one is from Charles S. Pierce: "... the woof and warp of all
thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science
is the life inherent in the symbols; so it is wrong to say that a good
language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it."
The second one is more ancient. It's from Confucius: " If language is
not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is
not what is meant, then what ought to be done remains undone."
With sincere regards,
I humbly remain.
Venkateswara Rao Veluri