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Post by Nitaidas on Feb 4, 2008 13:06:41 GMT -6
Here is a little piece I wrote over the weekend for a party on honor of Groundhog Day. This is as far as I can recall the first bit of Sanskrit writing I have done. I found it enormously difficult, even after having read so much and studied the language so long. It is all grammatically correct, though I have fudged a bit on the meter. At first I tried to stick to the rules for the AnuSThubh (zloka), but found it amazingly hard to make words fit. All that is required is that the fifth syllable be short, the sixth long, and the seventh alternatively short and long. I found that very hard to do. I have new respect for the writers of the Mahabharata and the Puranas who use that meter a lot and correctly. Yes, I actually checked to see if even they fudged on it, but the passages I looked were done correctly. Maybe once in a while they did fudge, but mostly they did it right. I swear I will never put down their work again. Anyway, here is the BhUmi-sUkara-stuti from an UpapurANa I invented. I have become rather fascinated with the idea of composing more poems and stutis in Sanskrit and will post the results of my efforts in these threads.
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Post by Nitaidas on Feb 5, 2008 10:18:35 GMT -6
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