Re: neo-laakshaNika grandha
Hari Krishna Tadepalli (harit@co.intel.com)
Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:54:26 -0700 (PDT)
My final few words on this for this summer. There is no monotonous function or
mapping that relates progressiveness of human beings with the calendar years.
The more introspective & observant such as writers, poets & philosophers spoke
time and again on the manifestation of the "good" and the "evil" as pertinent to
their times. (In one of his weekly discourses, ushaSrI was once asked something
like "ayyA eekAlamlO kIchakulu, duSSAsanulu unnAranTAra...", to which he
replied (I guess this is well known): "enduku lEru, kAlEjIllO ammAyila venTa
paDE vALLantA evaru..." - so long as we have the rucurrence of these human
qualities, the purANAas are just as relevant....). The basis for all human
morality was no where better summarized than in tikkana's "orulEyavi
yonarinchina, naravara apriyamu tAnorulakavi..." - in so far as the message is
relevant, I dont see how Tikkana is archaic, simply going by the time he lived
in or by the metre he chose to write in. If these are told & retold all the way
upto SS etal, so be it - I am willing to give all due credit to him. While the
literature is replete with these message loaded biographies & stories (my favourite
is #saktuprasthuDu#, if anyone remembers the #mungisa# and #dharmarAzu rAjasUyam#
story) - what I often cant help wondering is as to why the neo-lAkshaNikas (NL)
never run themselves astray into publicising them as well. Wonder when the NLs
recognise that content, language-usage & rhyme (or #chandas#) are independent of
each other & one does not automatically imply the other. The thousand years of
Telugu literature must have seen writings in all combinations:
[rhyme/no-rhyme] X [great/mediocre] X [social/asocial/personal/antisocial]
[vachana/padya/gEya] X [prouDha/graAnthika/vyAvhArika/acca-telugu/tETa telugu]
Wish NLs made better estimates of the dimension of their chosen space.
BTW, BSR forgot the one of the most important neo-lakshaNas: even a
typographical error should not result in the addition of an #arasunnalu#
and other Gaussian noise to the critically acclaimable Telugu writings.
T. Hari Krishna
#kAryadarSi#, SPDCB (Society for the Prevention
of Derision and Cruelty to #bODi-padyAlu#.)