Humorous poet

Courtesy: Sri.PK.Ramakrishnan

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In Kerala there was a poet called Tolan.
He was a nimishakavi and used to
compose numerous humourous poems.
 
He learnt from his teacher how to compose
slokas.
 
Anvaya - prose order.
 
The sentence in the sloka need not be
in prose oerder. One has to do the
anvaya to find out the meaning.
 
A sloka contains 8 letters in a quarter
or paadam. Sometimes the matter
can be expressed in 7 letters. But
to fulfil the requirement of 8 letters
one can use single letter words like
ch, vai,thu or hi. च, वै, तु, हि.
पादपूरणार्थम्
The same rule applies to longer meters
also.
 
The first composition of Tolan was this
 
उत्थिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ राजेन्द्र !
मुखं प्रक्षाळयस्व ट: /
एष आह्वयते कुक्कु
च वै तु हि च वै तु हि //
 
अन्वयं -
राजेन्द्र ! एष कुक्कुटः आह्वयते /
उत्थिष्ठ, उत्थिष्ट / मुखं प्रक्षाळयस्व //
Other letters are for filling the quarter.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Another version is
 
उत्तिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ राजेन्द्र मुखं प्रक्षालयस्व टः।
प्रभाते रटते कुक्कु चवैतुहि चवैतुहि॥
 
Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, June 22, 2011.

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