[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit mnemonics?

[adheesh sathaye]

Dear Colleagues,

In this regard, has anyone mentioned the mnemonic verses to remember the various meters, like उक्ता वसन्ततिलका तमजा जागौ गः । (found in the Appendix A of Apte)?
The only silly mnemonic device I can think of at the moment is that my students once called the ninth gaṇa the “nānī” gaṇa. 


With best wishes,
adheesh
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Adheesh Sathaye
University of British Columbia




> On Aug 23, 2021, at 11:22, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> are there really no other mnemonics or are they perhaps too childish to post them on this list?  I also like to use the verse rāmo rājamaniḥ etc., but rather in order to recall the order and numbering of vibhaktis.
> Is there a common word for "mnemonic" in Sanskrit?
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> Am 20.08.2021 19:56, schrieb sellmers--- via INDOLOGY:
>> Dear Antonia,
>> I use the verse rāmo rājamaniH ... for the masc.sg. forms of the -a
>> declension.
>> Best wishes,
>> Sven
>> Am 20.08.21 um 19:26 schrieb Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY
>> Von: "Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY" <indology at list.indology.info>
>> Datum: 20. August 2021
>> An: "Indology" <indology at list.indology.info>
>> Cc:
>> Betreff: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit mnemonics?
>> Dear all,
>> Whenever I've learnt a language in a classroom setting, we'd get
>> mnemonics to help us remember word forms or uses. (I am thinking of
>> things like 'after si, nisi, num, ne, all the ali's fly away', or 'If
>> one shwa by another is hounded, the first is silent, the second
>> sounded.')
>> Do any of you have any such mnemonics (no matter how silly - or dare I
>> say: the sillier, the better?) for Sanskrit? So far I only have
>> minuscule things like reminding students of Har*e* Kṛṣṇa (for
>> the vocative of i-stems), and also verses like
>> gurureva gatirgurumeva bhaje guruṇaiva sahāsmi namo gurave |
>> na guroḥ paramaṃ śiśurasmi gurormatirastu gurau mama pāhi guro
>> ||
>> If you have anything you use that works well with your students, I'd
>> be grateful if you were willing to share it. I'll happily sum up
>> everything I get in an email to the List.
>> Many thanks, as always,
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