Dear Antonia,

 

I don’t think anyone has mentioned yet the mnemonic for remembering the names of the 3-syllable gaṇas for the analysis of meters: yamātārājabhānasalagaḥ (or I’ve also seen yamātārājabhānasalagā). Thus, ‘ya’ is the name for a light-heavy-heavy triad, ‘ma’ for heavy-heavy-heavy, and so on. I’ve always found it very useful, and my students have too.

 

Best wishes,

Hamsa


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Hamsa Stainton

Assistant Professor

Chair, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships

School of Religious Studies

McGill University 


On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:58 PM Krishnaprasad G via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
There are n number of mnemonics in Bhaimi Vyakhya, luckily has the index for same. For instance :writing रेफ in devanagari is always confusing for students.
So here is 2 verses
अचं दृष्ट्वा ह्यधो याति 
हशश्चोपरि गच्धति।
अवसाने विसर्गः स्याद् 
रेफस्य त्रिविधा गतिः॥

तुम्बिकातृणकाष्ठं च 
तैलं जलमुपागतम्।
स्वभावादूर्ध्वमायाति 
रेफस्यैतादृशी गतिः॥

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 2:11 AM adheesh sathaye via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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@umich.edu> wrote:

A few corrections to your citation, Adheesh:

उक्ता वसन्ततिलका तमजा जागौ गः > उक्ता वसन्ततिलका तजा 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@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@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@list.indology.info>
>> Datum: 20. August 2021
>> An: "Indology" <indology@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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