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You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of sanskrit digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: Re: [Sanskrit] Sanskrit Quiz # 11 (Vis Tekumalla) 2. Sloka lakShaNam (Sai) 3. Re: Sloka lakShaNam (Vis Tekumalla) 4. mandAkrAnta vR^ittaH (Sai) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:18:21 -0800 (PST) From: Vis Tekumalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fwd: Re: [Sanskrit] Sanskrit Quiz # 11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Aarathi Sankaran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Sanskrit] Sanskrit Quiz # 11 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:28:46 -0600 Size: 6560 Url: http://mailman.cs.utah.edu/mailman/private/sanskrit/attachments/20040330/962884b4/attachment-0001.eml ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:34:05 -0700 From: Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Sanskrit] Sloka lakShaNam To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does Sloka always mean anuShTup chhandas? Is this the definition of anuShTup, or all Slokas? Can you please explain the meaning? "Everywhere, the 5th (letter) must be a laghu. The 6th letter must be a guru." saptamaM dvichaturthayoH = ??? - Sai. Vis Tekumalla uvaacha: > The definition of a shloka is: > > pa~ncamaM laghu sarvatra > saptamaM dvichaturthayoH / > ShaShThaM guru vijAnIyAt > etat shlokasya lakShaNam // ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:49:43 -0800 (PST) From: Vis Tekumalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Sanskrit] Sloka lakShaNam To: Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The shloka on shloka lakshaNam was posted by Mr. P.K. Ramakrishnan in response to the 3rd question in Quiz 11. It was not me. Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Does Sloka always mean anuShTup chhandas? Is this the definition of anuShTup, or all Slokas? Can you please explain the meaning? "Everywhere, the 5th (letter) must be a laghu. The 6th letter must be a guru." saptamaM dvichaturthayoH = ??? - Sai. Vis Tekumalla uvaacha: > The definition of a shloka is: > > pa~ncamaM laghu sarvatra > saptamaM dvichaturthayoH / > ShaShThaM guru vijAnIyAt > etat shlokasya lakShaNam // _______________________________________________ sanskrit mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.cs.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/sanskrit ...Vis Tekumalla [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.cs.utah.edu/mailman/private/sanskrit/attachments/20040330/2c0ba581/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:00:23 -0700 From: Sai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Sanskrit] mandAkrAnta vR^ittaH To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Just for the record, and to help others like me get familiarised better with the rhythm of a mandAkrAnta metre, A good example of this metre is the popular dhyAna Sloka: (8) (7) (7) (5) g g g g l l l l l g g l g g l g g SAntAkAraM bhujaga-SayanaM padmanAbhaM sureSam viSvAdhAraM gagana-sadR^iSaM meghavarNaM SubhA.ngaM lakShmIkAntaM kamalanayanaM yogihR^ddhyAna-gamyAM va.nde viShNuM bhavabhayaharaM sarvalokaika-nAthaM (I use 'Sa' to mean ITRANS 'sha' as it feels closer to our (telugu) pronunciation of that letter) BTW, guru (g) = (big) a letter with more than one mAtra (e.g., kaa, kI, ke, kaM) laghu (l) = (small) a letter with one mAtra (e.g., ka) mandAkrAnta = manda+AkrAnta = slowly advancing aakrAnta = approached , frequented , visited, overcome, overrun, overspread with, (passive voice of aakramaNa) meghaiH mandAkrAntaH AkASaH = Sky slowly covered by clouds. - Sai. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sanskrit mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.cs.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/sanskrit End of sanskrit Digest, Vol 12, Issue 11 ****************************************