skdas3739@yahoo.co.in Posted November 23, 2008 Report Share Posted November 23, 2008 Respected All, Namaskar Can anyone guide me and teach me the different chhandas (like gayatri, tristup etc. etc. ) to chant vedic mantrs. I will remain ever grateful. S.K.Das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shailendra_mishra Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Vedic chants are dependent on swaras than chandas. The sthula definition of chanda is that they tell you the no. of syllables in a pada. Also, not all vedic anuvakas are set to a chanda, it depends on the shakha (Shakalya shakha of Rigveda - all verses are set to some or other chanda). However for Taittiriya shakha in samhita only mantras are set to chanda, the Brahmana portions are chanda free. Like I wrote earlier this is very sthula or gross definition of Chanda. They have very deeper meaning and in yajurveda there are verses describing the nature of chandas and there releation to God and/or the yaga. Hope this helps. Respected All, Namaskar Can anyone guide me and teach me the different chhandas (like gayatri, tristup etc. etc. ) to chant vedic mantrs. I will remain ever grateful. S.K.Das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riih.qarojamahoamaan Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 There is too much to write here on metres, but there are good post on this subject here. If you know nothing about metres, you can still chant a mantra correctly if you pronounce correctly the long and short syllables. Especially be careful not to drop the short a as is done in Hindi. In general, chant in Sanskrit, not in Hindi or in a modern language. Be inspired by my signature! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshama Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 What is cchhands and swaras? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riih.qarojamahoamaan Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 swara usually means a vowel. In sanskrt a vowel is short or long. By certain patterns of long (called guru =heavy) and short (called laghu= light) syllables, metres (=chandas) are created. In this forum there are good posts about chandas. See the threads appearing below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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