On the avadhanam, with a question.
Kumar Vadaparty (kumarv@bellcore.com)
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:14:50 -0400 (EDT)
On the avadhanam, and a question.
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Juvvadi Ramana says:
>> Whichever side
>> you lean on, chando or nan-chando avadhAnam is certainly
>> a great experience.
Can't agree more. The three great things I liked about the avadhanam:
The avadhani's taste for the languages.
The avadhani's taste for the languages.
The avadhani's taste for the languages.
He just simply did not fill in the syntactic requirements, like a gymnast,
and called it a poem. Even sree-sree would agree, I think.
I was, again and again, reminded by Frost's line:
Two roads diverged in the woods, and I,
I took the one less travelled by.
Instead of taking "rave rave..." as a telugu samasya, he took the passing remark
of the prichchaka and interpreted it in Sanskrit, and did an excellent puranam.
Oh, btw, all in realtime on line.
Whenever he had a choice, he took the high-road, like a man with chivalry, and
proved his mettle over and over.
I wished people were a little less religious, or, NY chauvanistic (common,
you would not even ask your enemy to praise Hudson, and they did ask
the avadhani just that!). The varnanas could take a lot of improvements.
Questions like that of the Dokka Jr, were excellent, but few and
far in between. And, avadhani's answers to those questions were, of course,
great. In the Video tape I bought, he did an excellent poornam on naxalites.
Now, that's merit. I strongly recommend everybody to listen to that. I could
not but put the avadhani's taste for karuna rasam in the class of Jandhyala
(Papayya sastry, that is; not the cinema one). I think his
forte is in karunam with vrittanuprasam.
I have a question: I thought his quality is comparible to sinare, atreya,
and et al, in some of the songs(mind you, he did online, and they pre-canned).
How 'bout commissioning a kavyam (geya or chando) from him? On a secular topic,
if possible?
Kumar.