[INDOLOGY] training in poetic composition in traditional Sanskrit education?

[Prof Laurie Patton, Ph.D.]

Greetings all.

You can find a state by state list of contemporary publishers of such compositions and other forms of Sanskrit writing here:

http://sanskritdocuments.org/news/SanskritNewspapersandMagazines.html

I published a mediocre poem in Gunjarava, a small journal in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, in 2004.

Laurie Patton



On Aug 29, 2015, at 03:32, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com<mailto:dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Till the sixties it was expected of undergraduate and post-graduate students of Calcutta to write their answers in Sanskrit at the examination. This started at the higher secondary level in the explanation of Sanskrit verses. Some took to English but writing in one's mother tongue did not create good impression.
In the Departmental magazines of the undergraduate classes Sanskrit compositions were encouraged under the supervision of a teacher towards the development of skill. Philological deliberation was not encouraged. Poems or articles singing to the glory of Sanskrit, apart from secular poetic compositions, were welcomed. An article by me was revised by Pandit Sitaram Shastri (Mithila) as it did not contain sufficient 'm?h?tmyak?rtana' of Sanskrit. I made additions that made it acceptable.
Writing answers in Sanskrit had been the convention but was not compulsory. It was supposed to be a mark of distinction and it paid by way of relatively favorable assessment.  The emphasis was greater in the post-graduate classes. Later, under vigorous political emphasis on the mother tongue, it became the practice to write answers in one's mother tongue. The earlier enterprise petered out.
Sorry for a long lecture. I request forgiveness.
Best
DB

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Allen Thrasher via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:27:22 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: training in poetic composition in traditional Sanskrit education?
>From reading about traditional (Early Modern and Modern) Western training in Latin and Greek, in which composition was an important part, I am led to wonder if it was standard in traditional Sanskritic education for students to be assigned to compose verse, either the basic Zloka for expository works or more elaborate kavya.  Any thoughts or evidence.

Allen


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