Re: neo-laakshaNika grandha
Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Thu, 05 Jun 97 17:43:31 CST
Sree Bachoti Sridhara Rao on 6/5/97 1:22 PM writes:
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"--- When people of yester years tried to understand why they
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liked what they liked in literature and systematically analyzed
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all their availabe data, they came up with a lot of features
which several of us don't like now. If we do the same thing now,
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we can come up with a neo-laakshaNika grantha which may contain
rules or concessions for poetry like: ---"
I know I am the 'baddest'of the bad lot on the block. But,
I must say that likes and dislikes, what and why alone did
not make those tomes. It is a little more than that!
Unless the ground rules for discussion are agreed upon,
we won't be able even to understand each other's 'language.'
It would be worse than Babel Tower babbling, and people
like me (I mean it sincerely!) constantly betray their
himalayan ignorance in public!
[cut the rest of 'Sreedhara praNeeta navanavyayalaakshNika suutrakOSa']
However, for completeness sake, I will pretend to be the
'KshEmEndra' for his 'aanadavardhana,' and add the 'catch all'
rule, the mother of all sootraas, the top banana of all
to the proposed list:
"annee mana vEdaallOnE vunnayasha gaa!
maLLee ee ghOshantaa mankenduku sha!"
Regards from
V R "who still doesn't understand the need for quantum theory" Veluri