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From: Nagaraj Paturi <nagarajpaturi@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 8:06:56 AM
To: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com>
Cc: Uskokov, Aleksandar <aleksandar.uskokov@yale.edu>; indology@list.indology.info <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Metre of gopī-gītam

 

The pattern here is 

III UIU UIU IU

If you change the first two laghus into a guru , it turns into 

UI UIU UIU IU  

which can also be written as 

UIU IU UIU IU 

There is a repetition of  UIU IU 

or there are two symmetrical halves  UIU IU and  UIU IU 

UIU IU UIU IU is वैनसम्‌ 

We can say that by replacing the initial guru of  वैनसम्‌  with two laghus , we get कनकमंजरी .  This makes  वैनसम्‌  and कनकमंजरी have the same singing pattern.

First UIU IU  in आरोहण ascending tone and second UIU IU in अवरोहण descending tone. / नानना नना - नानना नना  \

In  कनकमंजरी,  III UIU UIU IU is the same as  IIIU IU UIU IU and the singing is IIIU IU   in आरोहण ascending tone and  UIU IU in अवरोहण descending tone.

 / ननन नानना  - नानना नना  \  or  / नननना नना  - नानना नना  \   

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We have many such pairs. 

शार्दूलविक्रीडितम्‌ changes into  मत्तेभविक्रीडितम्‌ by replacing the initial guru of  शार्दूलविक्रीडितम्‌   with two laghus , we get मत्तेभविक्रीडितम्‌ . That is the reason why viraamasthaana shifts one number from  शार्दूलविक्रीडितम्‌ to  मत्तेभविक्रीडितम् .  Reason is the singing style and singing pattern. 

That is the reason why in Telugu Satakams , they consider  inclusion of शार्दूलविक्रीडितम्‌ and  मत्तेभविक्रीडितम् both in the same s'atakam as no violation of uniformity of meter. Reason is the uniformity in singing style and singing pattern. 

Same with उत्पलमाला and चंपकमाला in Telugu. Replacing the initial guru of  उत्पलमाला with two laghus changes it into  चंपकमाला . Here too, viraamasthaana of champakamaalaa is one number higher than that of utpalamaalaa. 

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That is the reason Gopee geetam is called geetam. 

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:26 AM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Thank you Aleksandar.  I've also been informed offlist that this meter  but with the names  Rājahaṃsī and Vibhūṣaṇā is in the  three volume 1959 edition published in Pune by Prasad Prakashan, with editors P. K. Gode and C. G. Karve. . I was looking in Apte's 1890 edition where it didn't appear.  Apparently the modern editors expanded  the metrical section.

Regards,

Harry Spier

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:21 PM Uskokov, Aleksandar <aleksandar.uskokov@yale.edu> wrote:

Dear Harry, 

Vaṁśīdhara in his comment on the first verse writes: kanakamañjarī naś ca rau lagau iti sūtrāt. The definition scans right, so to his mind the meter is Kanakamañjarī. I don’t know which sūtra he has in mind.

Best wishes,

Aleksandar

Aleksandar Uskokov

Lector in Sanskrit 

South Asian Studies Council, Yale University 

203-432-1972 | aleksandar.uskokov@yale.edu 

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From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 10:05 PM
To: indology@list.indology.info <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Metre of gopī-gītam

 

Dear list members,

Can anyone identify the meter of the gopī-gītam (Bhāgavata X, chapter 31).

See this link: https://iskcondesiretree.com/page/gopi-gita

It is 11 syllable's per line but as far as I can see it is different from the 11 syllable metres in Apte's dictionaries appendix.

Thanks,

Harry Spier

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