laghu eighth syllable in Vasantatilaka

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Hiya cats.

 

In verse 15 of the Hemantavarnanam of the Rtusamharam, I find that the third

quarter verse, piinonnatastanabharaanatagaatrayaSTyaH, is again glossed by

Manirama in such a way as to make the eighth syllable laghu instead of guru,

thus: piinaaH puSTaa unnataazca ye stanaaH kucaasteSaaM bhareNa bhaareNa nataa

namraa gaatrayaSTyaH zariiralataa yaasaaM taastathoktaaH/

 

I wonder if this means that there was an opinion that this syllable could be

allowed to be laghu in Vasantatilaka, or that there was a class of commentators

that did not much care about the metre of the poems they glossed.

 

Phillip

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You are right. The commentary gives an impression of a reading with

the 8th syllable as being laghu. However, either the editor did not

read the mss correctly, nataa for aanataa, or the commentator is

simply mistaken. The definition of (ta-bha-ja-ja-ga-ga) and the

practice of Vasantatilaka does not allow the 8th syllable being laghu.

 

Madhav Deshpande

 

INDOLOGY, Phillip Ernest <phillip.ernest@u...>

wrote:

> Hiya cats.

>

> In verse 15 of the Hemantavarnanam of the Rtusamharam, I find that

the third

> quarter verse, piinonnatastanabharaanatagaatrayaSTyaH, is again

glossed by

> Manirama in such a way as to make the eighth syllable laghu instead

of guru,

> thus: piinaaH puSTaa unnataazca ye stanaaH kucaasteSaaM bhareNa

bhaareNa nataa

> namraa gaatrayaSTyaH zariiralataa yaasaaM taastathoktaaH/

>

> I wonder if this means that there was an opinion that this syllable

could be

> allowed to be laghu in Vasantatilaka, or that there was a class of

commentators

> that did not much care about the metre of the poems they glossed.

>

> Phillip