[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit mnemonics?

[Herman Tull]

Perhaps not quite a mnemonic, but I always told my beginning Sanskrit
students as an aid to remembering which of the stops were voiced and which
unvoiced (for their sandhi work), to think of a number line, with the
negative (-) on the left (voiceless) and the positive (+) on the right
(voiced). (That is, e.g., the line: ka, kha, ga, gha, ṅa, divided midway as
"-" and "+")

Herman Tull, PhD
Research Collaborator
Religious Studies, Lafayette College, Easton PA
Area Editor: Reception History, Other Religions and Current Religious
Movements
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: DeGruyter)


On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 12:54 PM adheesh sathaye via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
> —
> 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,
> >>    Antonia _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY
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