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1. Re: Humour in grammar (12) (Phillip Ernest)
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 13:15:29 -0400
From: Phillip Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Sanskrit] Humour in grammar (12)
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Quoting peekayar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> Humour in grammar (12)
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> shlesha (multiple meaning) can arise in two ways. One by having more than one
> meaning for a word. The second by forming different words from the
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> same set of letters.
I was recently told by Prof. A.K. Warder and by people on the Indology Yahoo
list that this latter device is known as yamaka rather than slesa. I asked
because at the time I was reading the mahakavya of Vasudeva, Yudhisthiravijaya,
which uses yamaka, and which moreover is in the very interesting moric arya
metre, or at least all the metres are moric rather than quantitative, if I
remember correctly.
> There is also an element of humour wherever there is shlesha.
This is an interesting question. My feeling is that there is usually not humor
when slesa and yamaka are used in mahakavya. It is possible that I may simply
not be a fluent enough reader of Sanskrit, or deeply enough versed in the
culture of sanskritic literature, to perceive the humor; and it is also
possible that humor may be understood in a broader sense, to refer to the
delight and surprise that is felt when enjoying the virtuosic employment of
slesa and yamaka. But I really wonder if anything like what is normally
thought of as humor was felt by the readers of the Yudhisthiravijaya. I don't
think the hasyarasa would have been detected in a work like Yudhisthiravijaya,
which is surely characterized by the viryarasa; and slesa is used in many
heroic mahakavyas, I think.
Phillip
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