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1. Re: laghu-guru (peekayar)
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:37:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: peekayar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Sanskrit] laghu-guru
To: Jay Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sanskrit digest
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I am reproducing the entire para from Apte page 649 on laghu and guru.
"A syllable is as much of a word as can be pronounced at once, that is, a vowel with
or without one or more consonants.
"A syllable is laghu "short" or guru " long " according as its vowel is short or
long. The vowels, a, i, u, r. and l. are short and aa, ii, uu, rr., e, ai, o and au
are long. But a short vowel becomes long in prosody when it is followed by an
anusvaara or a visarga or by a conjunct consonant. e.g. gam and gah. So also the
last syllable of a paada is either long or short, according to the exigencies of the
metre. whatever may be its natural length.
The exceptions to the above rule.
The consonants pra & hra and vra & kra are said to be exceptions, before which the
vowel may be short by a sort of poetical licence. e.g. Kumarasambhavam
Canto 7, verse 11 and Shishupaalavadham Canto 10 verse 60, where however, emendations
have been proposed by critics to render the metre conformable to the general laws of
prosody.
My comments. I do not have the actual verses mentioned above. I came across the
following example.
sakala-guNa-nidhaanaM vaanaraaNaamadhiisham
raghupati-priyabhaktaM vaatajaataM namaami.
Here ti followed by pri remains a laghu.
PKRamakrishnan
Jay Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ukta.m sAyyA:
>Subject: [Sanskrit] rules for guru in chhandas
> I heard that an akShara in front of a samyuktAkShara
> doesn't always become a guru.
> For example,
> apratiShTha
> 21
> sakala prakR^iti
> 1 1
> I heard that 'la' doesn't become a guru though 'pra'
> > comes after it.
> However, in apratiShTa, 'a' becomes a guru.
> What is the rule that explains this anomaly?
> In 'na tyaktavyam', does 'na' become a guru or a
> laghu?
The following sa.myoga must be in the same pada
(approximate meaning of "pada" is "word"), then the
syllable is necessarily guru.
At the end of a pada, dIrgha are necessarily guru,
while hrasva are optionally guru or laghu, no matter
what comes ahead.
dhan.njayaH
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