Guest guest Posted January 28, 2010 Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 Namaste, As we all know Chhandas is one of the Vedanga and Pingala Chhandasutra is the sovereign for the Chhandas shastra. During my recent run through on the above work, it arised to me that some of the Chhandas being used are not according to the sutras. Eg : Mahaganapathi mantra has 28 letters and most of us say gayathri chhandas/nichrud gayathri chhandas.Regardless to say tantra texts also supplements this. However,the sutra says " Oonadhikena NichudBhoorijou " , which means if a mantra has less syllables than what is required in a particular chhandas it is NIRCHRUD and if it has more syllables it is BHOORICH. Going by this the above said Gayathri chanddas for Mahagapathi mantra contradicts. Can somebody throw a light on above please. Regards Ramachandra Sastry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 Namaste. Chandas of vedanga does not apply to Chandas of Mantra. Chandas has got many meanings like " svacchanda " etc. Even Siva Panchakshari which has 5 letters is of Pamktih Chandas which is a mis-match. regs, sriram , " kcr_sastry " <kcr_sastry wrote: > > Namaste, > > As we all know Chhandas is one of the Vedanga and Pingala Chhandasutra is the sovereign for the Chhandas shastra. > During my recent run through on the above work, it arised to me that some of the Chhandas being used are not according to the sutras. > > Eg : Mahaganapathi mantra has 28 letters and most of us say gayathri chhandas/nichrud gayathri chhandas.Regardless to say tantra texts also supplements this. > > However,the sutra says " Oonadhikena NichudBhoorijou " , which means if a mantra has less syllables than what is required in a particular chhandas it is NIRCHRUD and if it has more syllables it is BHOORICH. > Going by this the above said Gayathri chanddas for Mahagapathi mantra contradicts. > > Can somebody throw a light on above please. > > > Regards > Ramachandra Sastry > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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