[Advaita-l] Metre of 'Bhaja GOvindam'

[Naresh Cuntoor]

Namaste Krishnan ji,

Bhaja govindam is metrically highly irregular. It does not follow the same
Chandas throughout.

Incidentally, none of the stanzas seem to be in the toTaka meter.

An example of toTaka meter is the toTaka-aShTaka, in which each paada
(quarter) is metrically equivalent to -

bhava shankara-deshika-me sharaNam.
Using 1 to represent 'laghu' and 2 to represent 'guru', the format is
1 1 2 - 1 1 2 - 1 1 2 - 1 1 2

And toTaka is not related to indravajra or upendravajra, both of which are
types of triShTup.
A mixture of indravajra and upendravajra is called upajaati.


Naresh P. Cuntoor




On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Michael Shepherd <
michael at shepherd87.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> If I'm right about its being in the Totaka metre -- (from which
> Totakacharya
> was given his name by Shakara..)
> that's an alternation of the indra vajram and upendra vajram metres, and
> was
> used (later !)by Sri Aurobindo for his celebrated poem 'Mother India'..
>
> Michael
>
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> Pranams, Krishnanji !
>
> Quick service, sahib...
>
> Written in the difficult Totaka metre, I believe !
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Krishnan S
> Sent: 22 April 2009 14:45
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Metre of 'Bhaja GOvindam'
>
>
>
> Advaita Rasikas,
>
>
>
> Pranam.
>
>
>
> I have a small query which may be outside the scope of the theme of the
> e-group. Let me be excused first. Still since I feel that many of you may
> be
> well equipped to answer my query, I am placing this before you hoping for a
> ‘quick service’
>
>
>
> ‘MOha mudkaaraH’ alias ‘Bhaja GOvindam’ – In what metre (’vRRiitta’) this
> work (supposedly) of Adi shaMkara’ is composed?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> S. Krishnan
>
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