Re: [nukkad] Rig Veda - 1

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

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>
> Not only the number of syllables, but also their placement / sequence
> within the verse is also
> of paramount importance, because that defines the meter. In other words,
> metric verse is much more than mere syllabic counts.
>
> M C Gupta
> 26 March 2008
> =============================================================

Most people agree that the reason for Sanskrit language and it's classics
going
defunct was the excessively large number of syllables carmmed into it's
lines, be
prose or verse. How torturous it would have been for a learner to memorize a
word
which, with the help of dozens of awkward sounding conjuctions, ran into few
lines
and one sentence constructed of such clumsy words ran into dozens of lines,
and
very often into several pages, without a full stop.. All this overdoing by
the Pandits
ensured exit of Sanskrit language from our day to day life.

I guess that is what Anna was curious to seek clarification : Why so many
syllables ?

Rohit Zaveri.

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