Re: nitpicking on kandam
Subbarao Varigonda (varigond@cems.umn.edu)
Thu, 22 May 1997 16:29:39 -0500 (CDT)
> Sri VVR wrote:
> I would bet my two shekels. I think, a more well-known
> "sarva laghu kandamu" ( a little stretching of
>
> yemitini sepitivi kapitamu
> bramapaDi ver"ipuccakaaya vaDi tini sepitO
> umetakaya tini sepitivo
> yamavasinisi yaneDi maaTa yalasni pedanaa!
To the best of my knowledge, this cannot be a 'sarva laghu kandam'.
First of all an exact 'sarva laghu kandam' doesn't exist because
'kandam' by definition requires 'guruvu' at the end of
2nd and fourth padas. So, two guruvulu are mandatory minimum.
aDigedanani ... has this minimum number of guruvulu only.
So it's kandam with as many lahuvulu as possible.(sarva laghu in that
sense)
yemitini ... has many laghuvulu but not the maxm possible.
the words puccakaaya, umetakkaya and maaTa have extra guruvulu.
There is another less known sarva laghu kandam by the same poet pOtana.
kari digucu makari sarasiki
kari darikini makari digucu garakari berayan
^^^
kariki makari makariki gari
bhara manucunu satala kutala bhaTuladari paDan.
^^^
Only the underlined two letters are gurvulu.
Here is one more by an allaa-Tappaa poet.
(scene: rAmAyanam, yuddhamlO lakshmaNuDu mUrcha pOvaDam)
lacamanuDu puDamina paDaga
kacabica mani goNagu kapulu kalavara paDagaa
lacimi magaDacaTiki jani va
gace valavala tana yanujuni kanugoni vasudhan.
regards,
subbarao
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