yamaka

January 29, 2004

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Okazaki Yasuhiro wrote:

> arthe saty arthabhinnaanaam varNaanaaM saa punaHzruti. yamaka (9. 82abc)

> ... If someone knows a reliable

> translation of Kaavya-Prakaaza. Please let me know.

R.C. Dwivedi: "The repetition of (a group of) letters in the same order

with a different meaning --when there is a meaning-- is yamaka (chime)."

For yamaka see books by:

Porcher, Marie-Claude. FIGURES DE STYLE IN SANSKRIT. Paris, 1978.

Sunesan, Carl. SAURIKATHODAYA. A Yamaka Poem by Vasudeva. Stockholm,

1986.

And articles by:

Bhattacharya, Biswanath. "Yamaka in Arya-Sura's Jataka Mala." ALB vol.

44-45 (1980-81), pp. 390-393.

Bhattacharyya, Sivaprasad. "The Vrndavanakavya and its Author." Varendra

Research Society's Monographs, No. 5. Rajshahi (1934), pp. 35-52.

Bhattacharya, Sivaprasad. "The Sabdlankara Yamaka in the Ramayana." JOIB

vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1951), pp. 80-85 and (continued) vol. 1, no. 2 (Dec.

1951), pp. 130-137.

Gode, P. K. "The History of the Art of Capping Verses." In: Felicitation

Volume presented to Professor Sripad Krishna Belvalkar (Ed. S.

Radhakrishnan, et al. Banaras: Motilal Banarasi Dass, 1957), pp. 169-174.

Hattori, Mari. "On the Rhyme (yamaka) in Sanskrit Poetics." ABORI vol.

78, pts. 1-4 (1997), pp. 263-274. [This is developed from her earlier

article "Indo koten shjigaku ni okeru oin ni tsuite," q.v.]

Hooykaas, C. "Four-line Yamaka in the Old Javanese Ramayana." JRAS pts.

1-2 (1958), pp. 58-71.

For specific reference to the Yudhisthiravijaya see:

Unni, N. P. "Yamaka Poems of Kerala." VIJ vol. 18 (1980), pp. 211-225.

There's one more work which I haven't seen which might be useful in

understanding how zleSa is distinguished from yamaka:

Bronner, Yigal. Poetry at its Extreme: The Theory and Practice of

Bitextual Poetry (zleSa) in South Asia. Ph.D. diss. Chicago, 1999.

A few more references to sources on yamaka can be found in my

AN ANNOTATED BIBIOGRAPHY OF THE ALAMKARASASTRA (Brill, 2001)

best,

Tim Cahill

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