sA virahE tava dInA

Submitted by jkmrao on Wed, 2010-03-03 07:17 My Gallery

Here is an article I wrote in telugu along with SrI brahmAnaMdaM in eemaaTa. It is entitled sA virahE tava dInA. It is on the eighth ashTapadi in SrIjayadEva's gItagOviMda with that name. Many of the readers may not know telugu. But there is an English translation of the ashTapadi in the text. More importantly there are links on the site for the songs sung by various artists as well as to external links marked in red. There are at least 15 versions of the same song sung in the same and different rAgAs in all styles - karNATaka, hiMdUstAni, fusion, etc. There are also two links to dances and paintings. Some of the artists are M L vasaMtakumAri, bAlamuraLi, raghunAth pAnigrAhi, nityasaMtOshiNi, vEdavalli, binni, etc. There is also a telugu translation of the ashTapadi which can be sung in the same manner like the original Sanskrit one. If you want poetry, music, dance and painting in one place, go for it!

http://www.eemaata.com/em/issues/201003/1552.html?allinonepage=1

Regards! - mOhana

sA virahE tava dInA
ashTapadi
jayadEva
gItagOvinda
sA virahE tava dInA - six-five-6.jpg

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sjnt

Fri, 2010-03-05 07:49

Very pleasing colour and nice and symmetrical arrangement Sir. I want to ask something since long. Why in all your texts,many alphabets are in capital in between, which make reading a little difficult? [This is my concern].

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jkmrao

Fri, 2010-03-05 08:29

Thanks jayantIjI,

If one writes sa virahe tava dina, it will not be clear whether it is long a in the first word, long e in the second, etc. That is why I write Indian words in a phonetic manner. There are several transliteration schemes - barahA, ITRANS, RTS. I follow RTS. In that scheme, the letters are written as follows:

a aa(A) i I(ee) u U(oo) R e E(ae) ai o O(oe) au aM a@h(visarga)
ka kha ga gha ~ma
cha Cha ja Jha ~na
Ta Tha Da Dha Na
ta tha da dha na
pa pha ba bha ma
ya ra la va
Sa sha sa ha ksha

Also if one wants to convert into Unicode, a scheme like this becomes necessary. barahA perhaps is the best free software that can handle several Indian languages very well. Also there is padma Mozilla that can do these using Firefox.

Regards! - mOhana

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sjnt

Tue, 2010-03-16 02:21

Yes sir, Now I understood. Thank you.Now I read ur writings with the correct pronunciation.