R: [Y-Indology] silent reading in classical India

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Hi Phillip. Only some suggestions about your stimulating topic.

In my alas past young age I have read parts of these works:

 

Manumantravabodha

 

Maunagopala

 

Maunasutra

 

Some books about the theme:

 

Frances R. Dearborn, Illustrated by H. Boylston Dummer

How the Indians Lived: With Silent Reading Exercises

 

Silent Reading: An Introduction to Its Study and Teaching

by A.K. Pugh

 

Space Between Words: The Origin of Silent Reading (Figurae Reading Medieval)

by Paul Saenger

 

The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading

Program

by Janice L. Pilgreen

 

A psycholinguistic analysis of the oral and silent reading performance of

selected Standard IV subjects in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies (Technical

.... elopment Center for Individualized Schooling)

by Henry Carmelo Amoroso

 

And some articles:

 

http://membres.lycos.fr/jacquesvigne/english/b2p2ch1.htm

 

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Chow-SSR.html

 

http://eyeshot.net/srjune.html

 

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr038.shtml

 

http://www.scasss.uu.se/fellows.htm

 

http://www.umich.edu/~umjains/sadhsath/chap07.htm

 

I know - it is a little help.

Cheers,

Daniela

 

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>Hi Phillip. Only some suggestions about your stimulating topic.

>In my alas past young age I have read parts of these works:

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>Manumantravabodha

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>Maunagopala

>

>Maunasutra

 

Thank you, Daniela. I'll see if I can find these texts here.

 

Phillip

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Dear Philip,

How about some indigenous perceptions?My traitional teachers used to complain

that sanskrit students have lost the good old habit of reading the texts aloud,

thanks to printing and press!.. Nowadays, they complain, not a soul knows to

recite a Sloka or commit it to memory!. In viva-voce examinations, it is not

uncommon to face the embarrassing situation when students cannot recite a

verse from Kaslidasa or a sutra from Panini.

How to reconcile the views of these old good souls with modernity?There should

be a via media. Sometimes, silent reading is desirable, sometimes not.We have

four levels of speech manifestation in traditional reckoning. while vaikhari is

welcome, so are para, pasyanti amd madhyama.

Rajendran

 

 

Dr.C.Rajendran

Professor of Sanskrit

University of Calicut

Calicut University P.O

Kerala 673 635 Phone: 0494-2401144

Residential address:28/1097,Rajadhani Kumaran Nair Road,

Chevayur, Calicut Kerala 673 017 Phone: 0495-2354 624

 

 

 

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>Dear Philip,

>How about some indigenous perceptions?

 

Always most welcome.

 

My traitional teachers used to complain

>that sanskrit students have lost the good old habit of reading the texts

>aloud, thanks to printing and press!.. Nowadays, they complain, not a soul

>knows to recite a Sloka or commit it to memory!. In viva-voce examinations,

>it is not uncommon to face the embarrassing situation when students cannot

> recite a verse from Kaslidasa or a sutra from Panini.

>How to reconcile the views of these old good souls with modernity?There

should

>be a via media. Sometimes, silent reading is desirable, sometimes not.We

>have four levels of speech manifestation in traditional reckoning. while

>vaikhari is welcome, so are para, pasyanti amd madhyama.

 

I don't know whether to feel reassured or sad to hear that the ability to

recite sanskrit fluently is rare, if not perhaps as rare, in India as it

is in the west. But it seems from what you say that, despite a perhaps

stronger tradition of reading texts aloud, lasting until much more recent

times, in India, the practice of silent reading became common there in antiquity

as it did in the west.

 

Phillip

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Dear Daniela,

 

 

Are Manumantravabodha, Maunagopala, and Maunasutra printed, or are

they in manuscript only? Are they in larger books with different

titles? I can't find them in OCLC (the online union catalog). Could

you provide me biblographic data?

 

Thanks

 

Allen

 

 

>>> ghezziem 02/19/05 5:48 AM >>>

 

Hi Phillip. Only some suggestions about your stimulating topic.

In my alas past young age I have read parts of these works:

 

Manumantravabodha

 

Maunagopala

 

Maunasutra

 

Some books about the theme:

 

Frances R. Dearborn, Illustrated by H. Boylston Dummer

How the Indians Lived: With Silent Reading Exercises

 

Silent Reading: An Introduction to Its Study and Teaching

by A.K. Pugh

 

Space Between Words: The Origin of Silent Reading (Figurae Reading

Medieval)

by Paul Saenger

 

The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent

Reading

Program

by Janice L. Pilgreen

 

A psycholinguistic analysis of the oral and silent reading performance

of

selected Standard IV subjects in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

(Technical

.... elopment Center for Individualized Schooling)

by Henry Carmelo Amoroso

 

And some articles:

 

http://membres.lycos.fr/jacquesvigne/english/b2p2ch1.htm

 

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Chow-SSR.html

 

http://eyeshot.net/srjune.html

 

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr038.shtml

 

http://www.scasss.uu.se/fellows.htm

 

http://www.umich.edu/~umjains/sadhsath/chap07.htm

 

I know - it is a little help.

Cheers,

Daniela

 

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