[INDOLOGY] Does anyone know of Sanskrit works that use 2nd-syllable rhyming?

Jean-Luc Chevillard jean-luc.chevillard at univ-paris-diderot.fr
Tue Jul 28 11:58:43 UTC 2015


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On 28/07/2015 13:53, Jean-Luc Chevillard wrote:
> Post-Scriptum
>
> In terms of frequency,
> I would venture to say that the most serious exception to the massive
> presence of etukai at the beginning of lines in the Tamil devotional
> corpus is seen in the nēricai veṇpā (which differs in that manner from
> the iṉṉicai veṇpā).
>
> See for instance the /mutal tiruvantāti/ (by poykaiyāḻvār), the /iraṇṭām
> tiruvantāti/, etc.
>
> For a graphic representation of the pattern, see the attached PNG image,
> taken from page 57 in a recent article of mine.
>
> Chevillard, Jean-Luc, 2014, Metres in Tamil Bhakti Literature and the
> Problem of their (occasional) Description in Treatises (Studies in Tamil
> Metrics-2), pp.39-96, in Gillet, Valérie (Ed.), Mapping the Chronology
> of Bhakti: Milestones, Stepping Stones, and Stumbling Stones.
> Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Honour of Pandit R. Varadadesikan,
> Collection Indologie n˚ 124, Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole
> française d’Extrême-Orient.
>
> Regarding the two types of veṇpā,
> there is an interesting article by V.S. Rajam
>
> Rajam, V.S., 1992, “The Evolution of Veṇpā as an Independent Entity”,
> pp. 163-184 in PILC Jourrnal of Dravidic Studies, Pondicherry Institute
> of Linguistics and Culture, Volume 2:2, Pondicherry.
>
> It might be available online somewhere, but I do not have the URL at hand.
>
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> On 28/07/2015 09:35, Jean-Luc Chevillard wrote:
>> Dear Palaniappan,
>>
>>
>> Maybe Indira Peterson is referring to what is most frequently seen.
>>
>>
>> Metrical treatises codify (and name) many theoretical possibilities
>> but many of those "possibilities" are extremely rare (and found only as
>> examples inside treatises), which is why, when writing about Tamil meter
>> in a series of article, I have tried to make statistics.
>>
>>
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>> On 28/07/2015 09:13, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan via INDOLOGY wrote:
>>> On p. 188 of the earlier referenced article, Indira Peterson says, “In
>>> Dravidian vernacular poetic texts, initial rhyme occurs at the beginning
>>> of and within the line of poetry, while second-consonant or -syllable
>>> rhyme is placed only at the beginning of the line of poetry, i.e., yati
>>> is a line-internal rhyme pattern, while prāsa is line-external.” This is
>>> not correct as far as Tamil is concerned. The second syllable rhyme can
>>> also occur within a line in different patterns. Assuming there are are
>>> four feet in a line, the second-syllable rhyming can occur in different
>>> patterns such as between feet 1 and 2; 1 and 3; 1 and 4; 1, 2, and 3; 1,
>>> 3, and 4; 1, 2, and 4; and 1, 2, 3, and 4.
>>
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