Guest guest Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all scriptures if I am not mistaken. Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts and textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although they say that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Dear Rohini , All scientific literature , books are indeed written in verse form today . None of these comes from outside our experience and all are extensions of our experience. Outsiders call it jargon. Regards , Anand A. K. Ghurye Mobile : 9820 489 416 Phone : 2685 5496 email : hmm_aha ---------- -------------------------------- § Training § Development § Relationships email : hmm_aha growthanddevelopment Saturdaybusinessclub http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ghurye1.html ---------- -------------------------------- - crystal pages Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:19 AM A question pertaining to classics [curiosity] All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all scriptures if I am not mistaken. Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts and textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although they say that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Curiously good question - the logic appears to be in the ease of recollection & reproduction of a verse....most of this verses are limited to four lines.....same like our vehicle number.....( though growing vehicles on road has changed the original system ) eye can catch & recollect with ease upto four digits.....more than that it is difficult.....this is as per scientific study..... with regards, sreeram srinivas _____ [] On Behalf Of crystal pages Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:19 AM A question pertaining to classics [curiosity] All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all scriptures if I am not mistaken. Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts and textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although they say that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! RR_._,_.___ <?subject=Un> .. <http://geo./serv?s=97359714&grpId=13436625&grpspId=1600082690&msgI d=11350&stime=1153525772> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Dear Rohini, That is perhaps to make it easy to memorize the classics as the verses render brevity to the texts . Chandrashekhar. crystal pages wrote: > > All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all scriptures > if I am not mistaken. > > Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? > > Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? > Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts and > textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although they say > that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! > > RR > > > ------ > > > > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release 7/18/2006 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 That makes sense, Chandrashekhar, particularly considering that presumably it was oral and not written. Verses must have kept the students alert and attentive too! Generally speaking students tend to doze off during lectures ;-) RR , Chandrashekhar <chandrashekhar46 wrote: > > Dear Rohini, > That is perhaps to make it easy to memorize the classics as the verses > render brevity to the texts . > Chandrashekhar. > > crystal pages wrote: > > > > All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all scriptures > > if I am not mistaken. > > > > Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? > > > > Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? > > Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts and > > textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although they say > > that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! > > > > RR > > > > > > ------ > > > > > > > > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release 7/18/2006 > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Verse means written as a poem Most scientific/technical/modern material (including astrology) is written in prose (like the format of this exchange). RR , Anand <anand.ghurye wrote: > > Dear Rohini , > > All scientific literature , books are indeed written in verse form today . None of these comes from outside our experience and all are extensions of our experience. Outsiders call it jargon. > > > > Regards , > > Anand > > A. K. Ghurye > Mobile : 9820 489 416 Phone : 2685 5496 email : hmm_aha > > ---------- > -------------------------------- > § Training § Development § Relationships > > email : hmm_aha > growthanddevelopment > > Saturdaybusinessclub > > http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ghurye1.html > > > ---------- > -------------------------------- > - > crystal pages > > Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:19 AM > A question pertaining to classics [curiosity] > > > All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all scriptures > if I am not mistaken. > > Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? > > Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? > Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts and > textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although they say > that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! > > RR > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Dear Rohini , To you it is prose . To the person interested it is poem . That is why I called it jargon . How do you think doctors remember hundreds of diseases , with thousands of symptoms and put it together with millions of OTC drugs all in a matter of few minutes ? If you keep a recipe book and a medical handbook together you will be amazed at the similarity between the two . By the way the word poem is defined as elevated composition in prose or verse . Thus it shows that poem is elevated or sanskritised version of straightforward text . What is elevated and what is not elevated depends on your familiarity with the language . For example hardly any high school student of Sanskrit would think of The Shrimadbhagwad Geeta as poem though it has the word Geeta in it . Regards , Anand A. K. Ghurye Mobile : 9820 489 416 Phone : 2685 5496 email : hmm_aha ---------- -------------------------------- § Training § Development § Relationships email : hmm_aha growthanddevelopment Saturdaybusinessclub http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ghurye1.html ---------- -------------------------------- - crystal pages Monday, July 24, 2006 9:55 PM Re: A question pertaining to classics [curiosity] Verse means written as a poem Most scientific/technical/modern material (including astrology) is written in prose (like the format of this exchange). RR , Anand <anand.ghurye wrote: > > Dear Rohini , > > All scientific literature , books are indeed written in verse form today . None of these comes from outside our experience and all are extensions of our experience. Outsiders call it jargon. > > > > Regards , > > Anand > > A. K. Ghurye > Mobile : 9820 489 416 Phone : 2685 5496 email : hmm_aha > > ------------------------- > -------------------------------- > § Training § Development § Relationships > > email : hmm_aha > growthanddevelopment > > Saturdaybusinessclub > > http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ghurye1.html > > > ------------------------- > -------------------------------- > - > crystal pages > > Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:19 AM > A question pertaining to classics [curiosity] > > > All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all scriptures > if I am not mistaken. > > Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? > > Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? > Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts and > textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although they say > that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! > > RR > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Dear Rohini, I am glad you find my logic proper. Chandrashekhar. crystal pages wrote: > > That makes sense, Chandrashekhar, particularly considering that > presumably it was oral and not written. Verses must have kept the > students alert and attentive too! Generally speaking students tend to > doze off during lectures ;-) > > RR > > > <%40>, Chandrashekhar > <chandrashekhar46 wrote: > > > > Dear Rohini, > > That is perhaps to make it easy to memorize the classics as the > verses > > render brevity to the texts . > > Chandrashekhar. > > > > crystal pages wrote: > > > > > > All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all > scriptures > > > if I am not mistaken. > > > > > > Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? > > > > > > Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? > > > Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering > texts and > > > textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although > they say > > > that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great > idea! > > > > > > RR > > > > > > > > > ------------------------- > ------ > > > > > > > > > > > > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release Date: > 7/18/2006 > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 I think they use mnemonics (lady between two majors, virgins are ugly at the kidney but virgins are beautiful in the lung, etc. My doctor friends used to tell us about all of these!). Mnemonics are not poems or verse. I realize that even verse these days can be written as prose, sort of. When I said verse, I meant the classical kind, with rhyme, meter etc. RR , Anand <anand.ghurye wrote: > > Dear Rohini , > > To you it is prose . To the person interested it is poem . That is why I called it jargon . How do you think doctors remember hundreds of diseases , with thousands of symptoms and put it together with millions of OTC drugs all in a matter of few minutes ? > > If you keep a recipe book and a medical handbook together you will be amazed at the similarity between the two . > > By the way the word poem is defined as elevated composition in prose or verse . Thus it shows that poem is elevated or sanskritised version of straightforward text . What is elevated and what is not elevated depends on your familiarity with the language . For example hardly any high school student of Sanskrit would think of The Shrimadbhagwad Geeta as poem though it has the word Geeta in it . > > > > Regards , > > Anand > > A. K. Ghurye > Mobile : 9820 489 416 Phone : 2685 5496 email : hmm_aha > > -- -------- > -------------------------------- > § Training § Development § Relationships > > email : hmm_aha > growthanddevelopment > > Saturdaybusinessclub > > http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ghurye1.html > > > -- -------- > -------------------------------- > - > crystal pages > > Monday, July 24, 2006 9:55 PM > Re: A question pertaining to classics [curiosity] > > > Verse means written as a poem > Most scientific/technical/modern material (including astrology) is > written in prose (like the format of this exchange). > > RR > , Anand <anand.ghurye@> wrote: > > > > Dear Rohini , > > > > All scientific literature , books are indeed written in verse form > today . None of these comes from outside our experience and all are > extensions of our experience. Outsiders call it jargon. > > > > > > > > Regards , > > > > Anand > > > > A. K. Ghurye > > Mobile : 9820 489 416 Phone : 2685 5496 email : hmm_aha@ > > > > > ------------------------- > > -------------------------------- > > § Training § Development § Relationships > > > > email : hmm_aha@ > > growthanddevelopment > > > > Saturdaybusinessclub > > > > http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ghurye1.html > > > > > > > ------------------------- > > -------------------------------- > > - > > crystal pages > > > > Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:19 AM > > A question pertaining to classics [curiosity] > > > > > > All jyotish classics were written in verse form. Indeed, all > scriptures > > if I am not mistaken. > > > > Anyone can shed some thoughts, light on that? > > > > Imagine if all scientific literature had to be written in verse? > > Including standard operating protocols, manuals, engineering texts > and > > textbooks on accountancy -- and medicine and surgery? Although > they say > > that a singing surgeon (while operating) may not be such a great idea! > > > > RR > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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