Re: nitpicking on kandam

Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Thu, 22 May 97 13:33:48 CST


     


Ms. Padma Indraganti on 5/21/97 5:00 PM says


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>nitpicking,
>The last two lines read:
>        veDa veDa siDi muDi taDa baDa
>        naDugiDu naDugiDadu jaDima naDugiDu neDalan ||
>bhAgavatamlO, gajEndramOkshamlO, ceppA peTTAkunDA veLLipOtunna moguNNi 
>cUsi
>lakshmI dEvi ilA avastha paDindiTa. I think this one follows the more well 
>known 'sirikin jeppaDu..' poem.
     

My few cents of knowledge on this well-known 'kanadamu' 
The above is one of the very few 'sarva laghu kanda's'.
     
Regards,
padma-truly-uninvited-atithi-indraganTi ---"

I would bet my two shekels. I think, a more well-known
"sarva laghu kandamu" ( a little stretching of 
truth is allowed in 'poetic' discussion!) is the one
that was attributed to the fictious kavi 'tenaali 
raamalingaDu.' It goes something like this:

yemitini sepitivi kapitamu
bramapaDi ver"ipuccakaaya vaDi tini sepitO
umetakaya tini sepitivo
yamavasinisi yaneDi maaTa yalasni pedanaa!

Just trying to be helpful, that's all!

Regards.

VR "expert in shooting at his own foot" Veluri