[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit mnemonics?

[adheesh sathaye]

Dear Madhav, 

Yes, certainly - thanks for the corrections, was typed in haste! 

best wishes,
Adheesh

> On Aug 24, 2021, at 10:41, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> A few corrections to your citation, Adheesh:
> 
> उक्ता वसन्ततिलका तमजा जागौ गः > उक्ता वसन्ततिलका तभजा जगौ 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
> >> Datum: 20. August 2021
> >> An: "Indology" <indology at list.indology.info <mailto: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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