Dear Madhav, I remember when you explained this to me and to my then classmate, Ed Hamlin. Ed, with a background in computing, immediately said: that's how hard drives look for data! Good memories of your book-crowded office in the Frieze building, back there in the corner of the ground floor, almost 40 years ago!!
Jonathan On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:34 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > It depends upon how narrowly or widely one defines the word "mnemonic". > There are a good deal of aids for memorization in Sanskrit, especially in > various Śāstras and for the Vedic reciters. One such device is used in > helping memorize Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī. For each Pāda, there is a string that > includes the first words of rules 1, 20, 40, 60 etc. and the number of > rules in the final odd lot. For example, the string for the first Pāda is: > वृद्धिराद्यन्तवदव्ययीभाव:प्रत्ययस्यलुक्पञ्चदश. There are 32 such strings > for the entire Aṣṭādhyāyī. One is expected to memorize the entire > Aṣṭādhyāyī. But to find the numerical place of any given rule, if one > begins reciting with that rule, very quickly one hits one of the location > markers in one of these strings, and then it is an easy calculation. My > senior classmate in Pune, Mr. S.L. Athlekar used to do this in a split > second, and then he taught his 8 year old daughter to do this. So this was > a very efficient system. > > Madhav M. Deshpande > Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA > Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies > Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India > > [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:34 PM Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> are there really no other mnemonics or are they perhaps too childish to >> post them on this list? I also like to use the verse rāmo rājamaniḥ >> etc., but rather in order to recall the order and numbering of >> vibhaktis. >> Is there a common word for "mnemonic" in Sanskrit? >> >> Christian >> >> >> Am 20.08.2021 19:56, schrieb sellmers--- via INDOLOGY: >> > Dear Antonia, >> > I use the verse rāmo rājamaniH ... for the masc.sg. forms of the -a >> > declension. >> > Best wishes, >> > Sven >> > >> > Am 20.08.21 um 19:26 schrieb Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY >> > >> > Von: "Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY" <[email protected]> >> > Datum: 20. August 2021 >> > An: "Indology" <[email protected]> >> > Cc: >> > Betreff: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit mnemonics? >> > >> > Dear all, >> > >> > Whenever I've learnt a language in a classroom setting, we'd get >> > mnemonics to help us remember word forms or uses. (I am thinking of >> > things like 'after si, nisi, num, ne, all the ali's fly away', or 'If >> > one shwa by another is hounded, the first is silent, the second >> > sounded.') >> > >> > Do any of you have any such mnemonics (no matter how silly - or dare I >> > say: the sillier, the better?) for Sanskrit? So far I only have >> > minuscule things like reminding students of Har*e* Kṛṣṇa (for >> > the vocative of i-stems), and also verses like >> > >> > gurureva gatirgurumeva bhaje guruṇaiva sahāsmi namo gurave | >> > na guroḥ paramaṃ śiśurasmi gurormatirastu gurau mama pāhi guro >> > || >> > >> > If you have anything you use that works well with your students, I'd >> > be grateful if you were willing to share it. I'll happily sum up >> > everything I get in an email to the List. >> > >> > Many thanks, as always, >> > Antonia _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY >> > mailing list [email protected] >> > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > INDOLOGY mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- J. Silk Leiden University Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Matthias de Vrieshof 3, Room 0.05b 2311 BZ Leiden The Netherlands website: www.OpenPhilology.eu copies of my publications may be found at https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk
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