[Advaita-l] Are sandhi rules essential to be followed while chanting gita verses?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Siva Senani ji

On Wed, 2 Sep, 2020, 8:33 AM Siva Senani Nori via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> Not merely a good practice, it is essential to follow sandhi rules. Sandhi
> is nitya in poetry.
> Why? Otherwise there would be chandobhanga. It is said that it is okay if
> there is a mistake in vyakarana , but there should be no mistake in chandas.



That's remarkable. Thanks for sharing that. If you happen to come across or
recollect that particular verse/passage stating the above essentiality of
chandas over even vyAkaraNam, kindly share it.

Om

Raghav




Chandas is like devata and is held to be powerful in its own right without
> reference to the content.
>
> Regards,
> Senani
>
>   On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 11:06 pm, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l<
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:   Namaste,
>
> Generally, BG shloka contains 4 pAdAs with each having 8 syllables. So,
> while chanting,
> we give a short pause at 8th and resume.  There are exceptional shlokas
> that have more than
> 32 syllables and proper pause has to be followed.
>
> It is always a good practice to follow the sandhi rules as the chanting
> evokes a sense of
> rythm (गीता सुगीता कर्तव्या)
>
> 2nd option is more naive which is taught to kids.  3rd seems to be good.
>
> The Gita Press has recently published the 'सरल गीता that has markings
> where to pause.
>
> Regs,
> Sriram
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