[INDOLOGY] Second-syllable rhyming in Dravidian

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

Dear Professor Paturi,

This is not true!

SSR seems to happen frequently as "inter-line" in Ancient Tamil literature.

I believe "intra-line" SSR is less frequent

See the characterizations (taken from the Tolkāppiyam), which I gave 
yesterday in:

"http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2015-August/041916.html"

See also for instance, this nice example from the Tolkāppiyam's 
characterization of the "verb" (viṉai).

TC195i
viṉaiyeṉap paṭuvatu vēṟṟumai koḷḷātu
niṉaiyuṅ kālaik kālamoṭu tōṉṟum.

We have etukai between "viṉai" and "niṉaiyum", which are both at the 
beginning of a line

(I could provide similar examples if you are not convinced ...)

Part of the problem lies in the fact that, people tend to view the rules 
of ancient Tamil literature through the lenses of medieval treatises 
such as the Yāpparuṅkalam and Yāpparuṅkalak kārikai
(which provide a very rich terminology for many marginal examples of 
intra-line SSR)


If you can provde massive evidence from ancient Tamil literature in 
order to support your statement, please do

Your with every good wish


-- Jean-Luc Chevillard (CNRS)



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On 09/08/2015 16:02, Nagaraj Paturi wrote:
> a. SSR of Dravidian verse and lyrical meters is intra-line and the SSR
> of Sanskrit meters either as used in languages of the south or in cases
> such as gOpIgItam of Sanskrit, is inter-line.