[INDOLOGY] mnemotechnics and visualisation in Indian traditional recitation techniques

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

Three
postures āyāma, viśrambha and ākşepa corresponding to the pronunciation of
the
acute, grave and circumflex were taught by Ṛgvedic ācāryas along with 
practical
demonstration at least till the sixties.
These
were universal that is to say have been adopted by the Ārya Samājis too. In
fact 
my
experience is from the Ārya Samāja. See the RV Prātiśākhya 3.1. But the 
verse
will give no idea of the rigorous training. Maharashtrian and Arya Samāji 
trainers
of North India are not symbiotically related, at least not more than 

Roman Catholics and Presbyterians. 
The
places of articulation are variously demonstrated but not through dia-
grammes
as in the Universities. At least a few decades ago Myanmar had 
kept
alive a method of demonstration through the palms and fingers. These
are
not unknown in India.
As
far as I remember this topic came to be discussed in this forum a few years
ago.
Best 
DB    

________________________________
 From: Viktoria Lysenko <vglyssenko at yandex.ru>
To: indology at list.indology.info 
Sent: Sunday, 16 June 2013 4:22 PM
Subject: [INDOLOGY] mnemotechnics and visualisation in Indian traditional recitation techniques
 


Dear colleagues, especially those of you who had undergone a traditional brahmanic education,
I would like to know whether any visual images, or interiour visualization techniques are involved in the traditional memorisation of Vedic or other texts? Or this memorisation is purely acoustic and dyachronic? How the memory of traditional pandita is organized, is there any spacial structurization?
I ask these questions in order to better understand the role of oral tradition and alphabetic writing in arising of "atomistic approach" to speech in indian phonetics and grammar.
May be, you can suggest some works which could help me.
Thank you in advance!
 
-- 

Victoria Lysenko, dr.hab.philos.
Head, Department for Oriental philosophy studies
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Volkhonka, 14
Professor, Russian State University for Humanities
Russia
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