Popular versus Classical meters

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madhav wrote:

>. . .This is a maatraa meter. Very common for

> Arati songs in Marathi and probably in other vernacular languages.

 

Also Coulson wrote in "Teach Yourself Sanskrit" about AryA meter.

"This meter was adopted into Sanskrit from more popular sources."

 

In general is it true that the more "popular" and vernacular meters

are mAtrA based and the "classical" ones are syllabic.

 

Thanks,

Harry

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INDOLOGY, "harryspier2000" <harryspier@H...>

wrote:

>> Arati songs in Marathi and probably in other vernacular languages.

 

>Also Coulson wrote in "Teach Yourself Sanskrit" about AryA meter.

>"This meter was adopted into Sanskrit from more popular sources."

 

George L. Hart has written that the so called Aaryaa meter

ultimately originated from a Dravidian substratum in the neolithic

Deccan. The verse is a type of "kalippaa". G.L.Hart

1) The poems of ancient Tamil, 1975

esp. pp. 252-253. 2) The relation between Tamil and classical

Sanskrit literature, Wiesbaden, 1976. Vaitaaliyar (does it signify

spirit-worshippers?) occurs in sangam literature too.

In tamil, pE(y) is demon, evil spirits etc., then, pEtALa/vEtALa

(cf. cEtA "cow with a calf, or red cow" from cE(y)).

Perhaps the folk meters used by dalit priests got first into

Maharashtri Prakrit and then became classical Sanskrit meter.

 

 

Recent finds from Adiccanalluur, parallel to the Anuradhapura

material, may show that writing in Indian subcontinent was formed

around the middle of first millennium BCE, and spread from south

to north.

http://www.hindu.com/2004/05/26/stories/2004052602871200.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2004/05/26/stories/2004052602871200.htm

 

 

N. Ganesan