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Date: 5 March,2016

Post No. 2601

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Some of Bharati’s friends were discussing about some mistakes in Bharatis poems and they argued that he did not follow the rules of prosody. Somehow Bharati came to know about this gossip. Immediately he called them and asked which came first Tamil or Grammar. They were unanimous in saying that Tamil came first and then the grammar came.

Bharati said, “Good. That is right. Please allow the Tamil language to go in its own way. Le the grammar follow the langage”. All of them kept quiet and left the place. Grammar is to show the structure of a language and guide it. But it should never devour the language is the view of Bharati according to Akkur Ananthachary who narrate this anecdote in Tamil ( from the 1936 publication of A.A. ‘Bharati’s Life history’).

Following is the view of R Srinivasan, given in his book, Facets of Indian culture):–

Grammar can never produce good literature; rather, it may hamper it. Language is more fundamental, it is a living aspect of human intercourse; grammar is only a code, a record of certain standard forms adopted by great literary geniuses. A poet does not care a straw for our grammar, grammar may stifle a poet, and he rebels and breaks thorough the prison house of grammar into spacious realms of poetic fantasies, untrammelled by any conventional fetters.

Adi Shankara on Sanskrit Grammar

Great philosopher Adi Shankara also mocks at Sanskrit grammarians who involves them in heated discussions wasting their time. In his Bhaja Govindam, he says in the very first verse:-

Adore the Lord, Adore the Lord, Adore the Lord,

O fool! When the appointed time for departure comes, the repetition of grammatical rules will not, indeed, save you.

Bhaja Govindam Bhaja Govindam

Bhaja Govindam Muudhamate

Sampraapte sannihite kale

Na hi na hi raksati dukrn karane

–subham–