gifts for Sanskrit teachers

[Venkatraman Iyer]

Vidyasankar Sundaresan <vsundaresan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
 >This sort of imagery seems to recur in Indian poetry. In the
 >Sankaravijaya texts, Sankara identifies Mandana Misra's house as
 >the one where the parrots are debating the theories of svata.h
 >pramANa and parata.h pramANa.

The imagery of parrots speaking in a 'hidden' language is real old.
Even their name, ki.li/ki.l.lai is related to speech
(ki.lavi/ki.lattal). CT perumpaa.naa.r.ruppa.tai mentions parrots
singing vedas at Brahmins' homes - "va.lai vaayk ki.l.lai ma.rai
vi.li payi.r.rum ma.rai kaappaa.lar u.rai pati ceeppi_n".

Two examples close in time to Sankaravijaya texts.
"ta.n taar meyk ki.lik kuu.t.tam caa_n.roorka.l urai payi.r.ra" - villi p.

"tii vi_nai anta.naa.lar ci.raar payil teyva veetam
naa uru ee.r.rak kee.t.tuk ki.lika.loo navilum vee.r.rup
puuvaiyum payi_n.ru puttee.l ulaku u.rai putu mantaarak
kaa u.rai ki.lika.tku ellaam kaca.ta.rap payi.r.ru ma_n_noo"
                                          -tiruvi.lai.

Regards,
V. Iyer


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