{"id":3751,"date":"2025-05-05T05:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:26:51","slug":"chhandashastra-workshop-glimpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"Chhandashastra Workshop Glimpses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ever thought of singing film songs in the tune of the v\u1e5bttas <\/em>(Classical metres)!!! The participants of the workshop on Chhanda\u015b\u0101stra<\/em> did!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A three-day workshop on Chhanda\u015b\u0101stra<\/em>– an applied science was organized by the Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai and \u1e5at\u0101yana between 28th<\/sup> \u2013 30th<\/sup> April 2025. The \u00a0workshop was skillfully conducted by Dr. Shreehari Gokarnakar. Dr. Gokarnakar is an alumna of the Sanskrit Department and an expert in Chhanda\u015b\u0101stra.<\/em> He was accompanied by his colleague Hrishikesh Desai, who supported with guitar and beats. Every session began with a musical prayer mostly taken from the Vedas or Subh\u0101\u015bitabh\u0101\u1e47\u1e0d\u0101ra. It set the tone and ensured participation of the student, teachers and professionals alike, who had come from across Mumbai to participate in the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first day began with the introduction to Pi\u1e45gal\u0101c\u0101rya – the composer of Chhadas\u016btra. It was astonishing to know how minutely the metres are formed. Concepts of permutation and combination and binary were touched. The actual discussion on chhandas began with the basic difference between chanda<\/em> and v\u1e5btta<\/em>. The ones used in the Veda are chhanda <\/em>and the ones used in the classical literature and beyond are v\u1e5btta<\/em>. G\u0101yatr\u012b- the mother of all chandas opened the doors to several Vedic Chhandas. Dr. Madhavi Narsalay, Associate Professor of our  Department also added her observations. Dr. Gokarnakar discussed how the Vedic chhandas follow the strict pattern of number of syllables. He called these chandas as the dynasties from which the v\u1e5btta<\/em> used in the classical literature emerged. Each slide of his presentation, increased the curiosity and interest of the participants. As the discussion on v\u1e5btta <\/em>began, it was explained that they are of two types – ak\u015baraga\u1e47a and m\u0101tr\u0101v\u1e5btta. By the end of the first day, the participants were equipped with tips and tricks to identify the Vedic Chhandas and most of the v\u1e5bttas. <\/em>The practice sheet in the form of homework helped the participants practice whatever they had learnt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second day dealt with more v\u1e5bttas,<\/em> its types like the ardhasama, vi\u015bamav\u1e5bttas <\/em>etc.<\/em> comparison between similar v\u1e5bttas. <\/em>Dr. Shreehari ensured that the participants sang the verses in the tune of the metre. He himself sang several variations displaying creativity within metres. The last day was memorable as the session dealt with the v\u1e5bttas<\/em> seen in film songs. So the participants sang the songs as per the v\u1e5bttas<\/em>and our own student Samruddhi sang the actual song as played in the movie. The entire exercise was an eye-opener to the fact that v\u1e5bttas<\/em>were not unknown to most of our old time lyricists. The metres in Marathi were also discussed as the patterns are same only the names differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another feature of this workshop was that Dr.Gokarnakar encouraged the participants to compose poetry and the three days saw some spontaneous poets reciting their poems. The workshop ended with a vote of thanks, of course in the form of poetry composed by our Head of the Department \u2013 Dr. Suchitra Tajane.-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report By Kanak Donde<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ever thought of singing film songs in the tune of the v\u1e5bttas (Classical metres)!!! The participants of the workshop on Chhanda\u015b\u0101stra did! A three-day workshop on Chhanda\u015b\u0101stra– an applied science was organized by the Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai and \u1e5at\u0101yana between 28th \u2013 30th April 2025. The \u00a0workshop was skillfully conducted by Dr. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,2,14,20,16,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskritbhavan.mu.ac.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}