Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 IS there aw orking hypothesis to suggest what it would mean if the phenomenon werer real Rajesh Kochhar *********************** - "peekayar" <peekayar "sanskrit digest" <sanskrit Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:14 PM [Y-Indology] Authorship of Uttara Kanda | There is an impression that in Valmiki Ramayana the | Bala Kanda and Uttara Kanda are later additions. | Or at least the Uttara Kanda. | | While reading the Uttara Kanda I noticed a preponderance of the letter ha. Therefore I gathered some statistical data from the first 1000 verses of Bala Kanda, Ayodhya Kanda, Sundara Kanda and Uttara Kanda. Though I have some data about the usage of ch, vai, tu and hi, it is a matter opinion whether they are superfluous or not. But regarding the usage of ha, it is evident that it is just to make the line full and it is not a meaningful addition. Therefore can it be attributed to a different authorship? I am giving below what I have gathered. This is open for discussion. Probably some others might have done a similar exercise. | | | Baala ha 13 | Ayodhya ha 6 | Sundara ha 5 | Uttara ha 19 | | PKRamakrishnan | | | | | | | Read only the mail you want - Mail SpamGuard. | | | | | | | | | Links | | | | | Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2004 Report Share Posted June 18, 2004 Obviously if the authourship is different for different kandas, some of the stories mentioned have no authority for a critcal evaluation of Rama Rajya. rkk <rkk wrote:IS there aw orking hypothesis to suggest what it would mean if the phenomenon werer real Rajesh Kochhar *********************** - "peekayar" <peekayar "sanskrit digest" <sanskrit Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:14 PM [Y-Indology] Authorship of Uttara Kanda | There is an impression that in Valmiki Ramayana the | Bala Kanda and Uttara Kanda are later additions. | Or at least the Uttara Kanda. | | While reading the Uttara Kanda I noticed a preponderance of the letter ha. Therefore I gathered some statistical data from the first 1000 verses of Bala Kanda, Ayodhya Kanda, Sundara Kanda and Uttara Kanda. Though I have some data about the usage of ch, vai, tu and hi, it is a matter opinion whether they are superfluous or not. But regarding the usage of ha, it is evident that it is just to make the line full and it is not a meaningful addition. Therefore can it be attributed to a different authorship? I am giving below what I have gathered. This is open for discussion. Probably some others might have done a similar exercise. | | | Baala ha 13 | Ayodhya ha 6 | Sundara ha 5 | Uttara ha 19 | | PKRamakrishnan | | | | | | | Read only the mail you want - Mail SpamGuard. | | | | | | | | | Links | | | | | INDOLOGY/ INDOLOGY Mail - You care about security. So do we. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 I remember such an exercise is being conducted. It is more to do with the style of writing. The repetion of words and the type of similies used were taken as the measure in this study. I am looking for the reference, coz I did not keep it since the author seemed to be very biased in his eagerness to prove Uttarakanda is infact written after Buddha. Kishore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 INDOLOGY, peekayar <peekayar> wrote: > Obviously if the authourship is different for different kandas, some of the stories mentioned have no authority for a critcal evaluation of Rama Rajya. > > rkk <rkk@N...> wrote:IS there aw orking hypothesis to suggest what it would mean if the > phenomenon werer real > Rajesh Kochhar > *********************** I have the subjective impression (not backed by gathering statistics) that in Tulasidas Ramacharitmanas, certain words and similes appear, are reused often for some length of the text, and then become scarce again. I don't think the authorship of any of Ramcharitmanas is in doubt. The point being that in the writings of one author, statistical fluctuations are likely; and even if the statistics displayed are significant (which I doubt) one has to show that these are different from the statistics in a single author's work. -Arun Gupta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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