[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit mnemonics?

[Madhav Deshpande]

A few corrections to your citation, Adheesh:

उक्ता वसन्ततिलका तमजा जागौ गः > उक्ता वसन्ततिलका त*भ*जा *ज*गौ गः

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:53 AM 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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