Teori Dan Praktik Membaca Sloka Dan Puja Mantra

Teori dan Praktik Membaca Sloka dan Puja Mantra

Membaca sloka dan puja mantra memiliki aturan baku. Ilmu mengenai aturan persajakan klasik ini disebut prosodi. Aturan-aturan baku tersebut tertuang dalam bentuk wretta dan matra sehingga dalam persajakan Sanskerta (yang kemudian diadopsi dalam kesusastraan Jawa kuno) terdapat banyak sekali metrum. Dengan mengetahui cara membaca sloka dan mantra tersebut dengan tepat, tidak hanya ketepatan yang diperoleh, tetapi juga rasa dan makna. Gabungan ketiganya niscaya akan bermanfaat. Buku ini akan bermanfaat bagi umat Hindu yang belajar mengucapkan pūja mantra, lebih-lebih bagi pembina, pelatih, dewan juri dan peserta utsawa (lomba) Dharmagītā khususnya dalam bidang membaca śloka dan kakawin serta menghapal śloka dan mantra.

Teori dan praktik membaca śloka dan pūja mantra

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

This Dictionary has been undertaken to supply a want long felt by the student, f a complete and at the same time cheap Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Very little need, I think, be said with regard to the necessity of bringing out a work like this, when the study of Sanskrit has received such a strong impetus during the last twenty five years. There have been four or five Sanskrit-English Dictionaries published till now; but very few of them fulfil the two essential conditions of the popularity and usefulness of such works: satisfying all the requirements of students and at the same time being within their easy reach. The Dictionaries of Professors Wilson and Monier Williams are very useful and valuable works, but their prices-particularly of the latter-are prohibitively high, and they do not also meet many of the most ordinary wants of Sanskrit readers. A student, while reading Sanskrit at School or College, generally expects that the Dictionary which he uses will give will give appropriate equivalents for such words and compound expressions as may have peculiar meanings or shades of meaning in particular passages.