ākāra technical_term

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Variants (1): ākāra (1)

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akara_vowels_are_true_svaras validation · 1 att.
Only vowels beginning with ākāra are true svaras; ṣaḍja and the like exist for the pronunciation of these vowels.

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RULE id: ākāra (cluster 1693)
SCOPE: technical_term family
STATUS: traditional
CONFIDENCE: traditional
PROTECT: false

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Graph relations

Outgoing (2)

--[relation]--> svaras (1)--[relation]--> Şadja (1)

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prayoga --[definition]--> (1)

Affirmations (1)

relation

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Vowels beginning with ākāra are considered true svaras, while śadja and the like exist for their pronunciation

"only (vowels) beginning with ākāra are svaras. şadja and the like are there for the pronunciation of (vowels) beginning with ākāra"

31 TRANSLATION It is being said (answered) - It is one and many, pervasive6 and eternal.7 In the undifferentiated state there is one svara; in the form of sadja and the like svara is many. Similarly also said Kohala - "Svara is said to be infinite" on account of (its) combination with jāti, bhāṣā etc. It is combined with padas 9 (syllabic units, meaningful or non-sensical) and is to be combined with alankāra10 and (used in) rasas." 11 (It is) eternal i.e. indestructible. 12 (It is) pervasive i.e. sarvagata 13 (contained in or permeating everything). Similarly said Kohala - "By the effort of the ūrdhvanāḍīs14 on account of rubbing or striking of all 'walls', the sound that grows upto the cerebrum, is svara, it is vyāpaka (pervasive) (and) para (beyond).15 (Anu. 17) But how is the svaratva 16 of (svara-names) şadja and the like, on account of their being consonants? If the svaratva of consonants is spoken of, then there should be the svaratva of (consonants) beginning with ka? Here it is being said (answered) that there is the svaratva of only şadja and the like on account of their being asādhāraņa 17 (lit. uncommon, special), not of (consonants) beginning with ka. But why (or how) is the uncommon or special nature of sadja and the like? (Answer) - on account of the upadesa 18 (speaking of) by the aptas (trusted ones) the asadharanatva (uncommonness, special nature) of svaras is there. So did say Maheśvara19 in Kohala — "The peacock speaks şadja, the cātaka (bird) speaks ṛṣabha, the goat speaks gāndhāra, the kraunca (bird) speaks madhyama, in the puspasādhāraņa time (common time for flowers i. e. Spring) kokilā speaks pañcama, when the rainy season approaches, dardura (the frog) speaks dhaivata. O Devi ! in the same way, the elephant always speaks niṣāda." Or, only sadja and the like have uncommonness or special nature because of their movement in upward sound, or şadja and the like are not svaras, only (vowels) beginning with ākāra 20 are svaras. şadja and the like are there for the pronunciation of (vowels) beginning with ākāra, so (it is said).