Re: Jaruk Saastry pEraDeelu - My turn Please!
Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri (pkrishna@ARL.MIL)
Fri, 27 Jun 97 20:37:11 EDT
Just for the sake of completeness and accuracy, much to the consternation of
the chandO-phobes, and against my own inclination not to drag chandas
through the muddied waters of this medium, (after all, you can domesticate
a tiger, but can't change its stripes), and all that sort of thing,
anushTup has one of the most laissez-faire attitudes for chandas.
You would think the "most popular sanskrit meter" (perhaps 90% of
geeta, all of rAmAyaNam, ...) would be a little bit more "maDi
kaTTukuni unTundi".
But no! All its requirements are: (this is what I know; it goes
without saying that I welcome to be corrected)
* eight syllables in each line
* 5,6,7 syllables shall be ya-gaNa (IUU) in odd lines,
ja-gaNa (IUI) in even lines
there is just one more, sort of a half- or non-rule, that the
even lines end in a guruvu. This almost goes without saying. So
it doesn't have to be said. Ignore this paragraph.
Whle this is so, I have not come across any anushTup verses where the first
four sylables are laghuvus.
That said, one more thing. "naalugu kaanulokaNaa" doesn't quite follow the
structure. The way I heard it from PVG (summer of 1994, at the beginning
of the North American Tour of Kuchipudi Art Academy), it is
naalukkaaNeelu okkaNaa
. . . . I U I
Ramakrishna