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Sastra-2021-Website-Upload.Pdf ISSN 2694-0965 ŚĀSTRA Journal of the University of Silicon Andhra Vol III, 2021 EDITOR Pappu Venugopala Rao. D. Litt University of Silicon Andhra 1521 California Circle, Milpitas, CA 95035 | Tel: 1 (844) 872 8680 www.universityofsiliconandhra.org Editorial Board Prof. Pappu Venugopala Rao Editor Prof. Rani Sadasiva Murthy Member Advisory Council Anuradha Sridhar Eminent Violinist Prof. R.S. Jayalakshmi Chair, Dept of Carnatic Music Prof. STG Vasanta Lakshmi Chair, Dept of Sanskrit Prof. Mrunalini Chunduri Chair, Dept of Telugu Prof. Yashoda Thakore Chair, Dept of Dance Raju Chamarthi Provost (ex Officio) I University of Silicon Andhra ŚĀSTRA 2021 Contents Page No Saṅgīta Sampradāya Pradarśini 1 1 - Prof. R.S. Jayalakshmi Telugu Commentaries on Saṃskṛta Musical Treatises 2 23 - Prof. V. Premalatha Bhāva Prakāśana - A Critical Analysis of 3 Characteristics of Nāyakās and Nāyikās 37 - Dr. Yamini Kurati Nāṭya śāstra and Abhinayadarpaṇa Knowledge and 4 Practice 53 - Dr. Divyasena Sommanna An overview of Nāṭya Darpaṇa of Ramachandra and 5 Gunachandra 65 - Prof. Pappu Venugopala Rao Pingala and Vedic Chandas 6 75 - Prof. Rani Sadasiva Murty A Glimpse into Vyākaraṇa with Special Reference to 7 Aṣṭādhyāyī and Siddhāntakaumudi 97 - Prof. STG Vasanta Lakshmi Valid Cognition and its means as per the Yogaśāstra 8 ;ksx’kkL=ks izek;k% izek.kL; p Lo:ie~ 117 - Prof. Penna Madhusudan Unpublished commentary on a Literary Treatise 9 లక్షణ నవరత㐨 렾젿క (అ롁ద్రితం) స퐿మర㐶క ప쀿�లన 127 - Dr. Addanki Srinivas A List of some important Treatises - Graduate Students, Kuchipudi Deparment 10 159 Anasuya Malyavantham, Anisha Davis, Aparna Rao, Monica Jeyachandran, Neeharika Pendekanti University of Silicon Andhra Our Contributors Prof. R.S. Jayalakshmi is renowned personality in the Carnatic Music fraternity. She is a Musician, Musicologist and Veteran Teacher. She has a long and assiduous career in Music for over 50 years. She is a Retired Lecturer from the University of Madras, Chennai and presently faculty at the Advanced School of Carnatic Music of The Music Academy, Chennai, faculty at the Swami HaridossGiri School Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai. Most importantly, she is also the Chairperson and Faculty at our own University of Silicon Andhra, California, USA. She is a ‘A” grade performing artist with All India Radio and Doordarshan, India. She has received numerous awards including Musicologist award from the The Music Academy, Chennai and Acharya Ratnakara Award from Shri Bhairavi Fine Arts, Cleveland, USA to just name two. She has toured Taiwan, Singapore, Denmark, Malaysia, Australia and the United States for Veena performances and Workshops. Prof. V. Premalatha is the Head of the Department of Music and Dean of the School of Performing arts and Fine Arts in the Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur. A Post-graduate in Music from the Madurai Kamaraj University, she has obtained Ph.D. from the University of Madras, under the guidance of Prof. N Ramanathan in 2002. Has been working in the area of music manuscripts for the past 20 years and had completed Research Projects awarded by the Sangeet Natak Akademi and the UGC, New Delhi. Her book “Natyacudamani of Somanarya - a critical edition and translation” has been published by the National Manuscripts Mission. She has presented Research Papers at National & International Seminars and has published research articles in the Journals of Music and many are available online. She is a member of Board of Examiners for PG and Research in many Universities in India. She has contributed online lessons/modules (e-content) relating to Karnataka Music under the subject Indian Culture for the UGC/MHRD’s E-PG pathshala project. VII Dr. Yamini Yasoda Kurati is an experienced classical dancer of Kuchpudi. She possesses sound knowledge of the techniques of Kuchipudi dance. She obtained MA in Kuchipudi dance from Potti Sriramulu Telugu University. A notable achievement has been that, she obtained two gold medals in her MA. She earned Ph.D from University of Hyderabad. She has a wide experience of more than 15 years as a Dance Teacher. She is now a faculty of Department of Kuchipudi, University of Silicon Andhra. Dr. Divyasena Sommanna has been under the guidance of Late Smt. Kalanidhi Narayan for Abhinaya & Guru Sri. J. Suryanarayanamurthy for Bharatanatyam. She was initiated into Kuchipudi under Sri. Vempati Chinna Sathyam and is currently pursuing training under Sri. Jaikishore Mosalikanti. She founded Divyanjali School of Dance in 1994 and since then has led her team to tours in various countries including Bangkok, Singapore, Europe, Australia, Srilanka, USA, etc. She completed her PhD in 2019, under the guidance of Dr. Ambika Kameshwar and is currently working as a lecturer in the Bharatanatyam Department at the University of Silicon Andhra, USA. Prof. Pappu Venugopala Rao holds three masters in English, Sanskrit and Telugu, a Ph. D in Sanskrit and Telugu, Doctor of Letters in Indology and a Gold medal in Business Management. Worked with American Institute of Indian Studies for 32 years, retired as Associate Director General of Programs. Author of many books and recipient of many awards including All Round Scholarship Award from Central Sangit Natak Akademi. Chair, Board of Trustees, University of Silicon Andhra. Prof. Rani Sadasiva Murty, Dean, Academic Affairs in the National Sanskrit University, Tirupati is a renowned academician with 40 years experience as a teacher in Higher Education Institutions.Besides, he is an author, poet and playwright in Sanskrit, English and Telugu. He is a recipient of the prestigious National Award of Kendra Sahitya Academy, New Delhi. Further he was honoured with many titles and honours from different traditional and modern academic, social, cultural and spiritual organisations.So far under his guidance 20 members received Ph.D Degrees and 24 members received M.Phil Degrees.He authored 40 books, 60 research papers, 100+ articles for general magazines and has been delivering hundreds of discourses in various TV Channels like SVBC for the last two decades. He wrote more than 30 classical dance ballets in Telugu, Sanskrit and English. VIII Prof. STG Vasanta Lakshmi: Her learning began at the age of three under 1. Saṅgīta Sampradāya Pradarśini her grandfather Sri STG Varadacharyulu the renowned Sanskrit scholar. Her dissertation on “samskṛtālaṅkārikeṣu Rājānaka Ruyyakasya viśiṣṭam sthānam” has earned her a Doctoral Degree. Dr. Vasanta Lakshmi has - Prof. R.S. Jayalakshmi translated ‘Rasārṇavasudhākaram’ and ‘Alaṅkārasarvasvam’ from Sanskrit to Telugu, ‘Ekavīrā’ and ‘Suvarṇakaṅkaṇam’ from Telugu to Sanskrit and ‘Art Experience’ from English to Telugu for acclaimed publishers.She has Introduction the experience of teaching at Maharishi Veda Vigyan Mahavidyalaya for 36 years during which she received the ‘Best Teacher’ award from the Govt of Saṅgīta Sampradāya Pradarśini is a monumental work of Subbarāma Andhrapradesh. Presently Dr. Vasanta Lakshmi is the Chair of the Dept. of Dīkṣita which was published in the beginning of 20th century. The Sanskrit, University of Silicon Andhra Saṅgīta Sampradāya Pradarsini was published in 1904, in two volumes running into 1770 pages in Telugu with the sponsorship of Prof. Penna Madhusudan, professor department of bharatiya darshan, Ettayapura Samasthana Maharaja Jagathveera Rama Venkatesvara kalidas sanskrit university, ramtek Maharashtra, Sahitya Academy awardee, Raja and published at Vidiya Vilasini press. This book has vachaspati (hon.D.Litt) published about 30 books on different subjects. subsequently been translated into Tamil, English, Kannada and a few Specialized in Yoga, vedanta and nyaya other languages. Dr. Addanki Srinivas is the recipient of the ‘Maharṣi bādarāyaṇa vyās A brief life history of the author of this book, Saṅgīta Sampradāya sam’mān’ (Presidential Award) Known to the literary world as a Grammarian, Pradarśini, Subbarāma Dīkṣita is below: Linguist, poet, narrator, critic, play-writer, lyricist, translator, lexicographer, commentator, orator, and columnist. His articles and speeches have impressed many magazines and national and international conferences. 83 books have Subbarāma Dīkṣita (1839-1906) belongs to a distinguished lineage of already been published. Another 12 are in print. He did research on Telugu the Dīkṣita Parampara. He was the grandson of Bālasvāmi Dīkṣita, a grammars, bridged the gap between ancient grammatical tradition and modern linguistics, and made significant contributions to machine translation. He is younger brother of Muddusvāmi Dīkṣita. He may in some sense be also a researcher who studies ancient literature with a modern perspective. considered as the last of the Great Musician-Composer-Musicologist- Has commented critically on over 5500 poems so far. He has received more Scholars of the Karnataka Music. His unique personality and than 30 awards and has two titles i.e. navabhārataratna and vēgāvatībhārati. scholarship is a boon to the Music World owing in particular the book he has written, Saṅgīta Sampradāya Pradarśini. Ahead of the Saṅgīta Kuchipudi Graduate Students: Sampradāya Pradarśini, Subbarāma Dīkṣita had published the text of the opera of Shahaji Maharaj named Pallaki sēvā prabandha. Anasuya Malyavantham, Anisha Davis, Aparna Rao, Subsequent to Saṅgīta Sampradāya Pradarśini, he had further written Monica Jeyachandran, Neeharika Pendekanti. two more books, namely, Prathamābhyāsa Pustakamu (1905) and SamasKṛdhāndra Drāviḍa Pustakamu (1906). In the latter book, Subbarāma Dīkṣita has given nearly 35 kritis of Krishnaswamy Ayya which are tuned by Subbarāma Dīkṣita. IX ŚĀSTRA Journal of University of Silicon Andhra Treatises Special JAN 2021 Volume III © University of Silicon Andhra Price: $15 / Rs.150 ISSN 2694-0965 ISBN 978-1-64256-003-9 For copies: University of Silicon Andhra 1521 California Circle, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA. All correspondence regarding the Journal may please be sent to: [email protected] .
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