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- From: gopals@astro.umd.edu (N. Gopalswamy)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
- Subject: Re: Kazhi-nediladi Aciriya viruttam [padinAru chIIr]
- Message-ID: <17706@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:08:00 GMT
- References: <17676@umd5.umd.edu> <2B375079.5101@news.service.uci.edu> <1992Dec23.124514.19947@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.124514.19947@news.acns.nwu.edu> rags@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Raghavan Jayaraman) writes:
-
- > cIIr generally refers to this syllabic sequence. A word used in pa
- >line can be single or multiple syllables [thema vs themangani]. Depending
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Wait a minute!
- thEmaa is not single syllable. It has two syllables:thE and maa.
- It is called Irasaich cheer. thE-maan-kani is moovasaich cheer.
- Nowhere can a single syllable ceer can occur except
- as the last ceer in a veNpaa [naaL is the formula,
- other vaaipaadus being kaasu, malar and piRappu].
-
- >on the experimentation by cannonists to fit their verses to music [or to
- >make it euphonius] there are 15-20 variations observed in various works in
- >each of the combination of four verses and 3 pavinams. So a cIIr is
- >important in identification of any verse within a category.
- >
- >----------
- >PS:- If I imitate somebody then I wouldn't make it so easy on U in identifying
- >the original. It will be something like this.
- >
- >"putti thugal padam jollu - ivaiyavum
- >ikkAla mAnAkarin panbena kol"
- >[culled from adikAram " ikkAla mAnAkar]
- >---------
- >PPS:- the fifth word in the first line is called thani-sol, which is a
- >derivative formed by saiva cannonists.
- >---------
-
- gopal
-