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Classification of Poetry
917 ra. (Vol. II. p. 283, Dr. Raghavan) this reads as “lāsyam eva devakinnara-visayam śamyā”, adding Devas to Kinnaras. Vādi-janghāla on K.D. I. 39 seems to borrow partly from Bhoja when he observes that lāsya is love-dance of humans, śamyā of Kinnaras and Chalika of celestial damsels. Taruna Vācaspati quotes Bhoja, but the Hrdayam-gamă explains it as a term related to the motion of hands for keeping time.
"śamyā tu savyayoḥ pātaḥ sa-tāla-kara-pādayoḥ, ubhayoḥ karayoḥ pātaḥ
sannipāta iti smộtaḥ." The HỊdayamgamā further observes : aratnimātraprāya-nānāvarņa-racita-yastihastaih, bahubhiḥ bahvībhir vā tair eva tālahastaiś ca tālayastīnām ekávasare sannipāto vā, tālam vină yastīnām ekávasare sannipāto vā, tālam vină yastihastair eva yastīnām sannipāto vā śamyā ucyate.”
Dr. Raghavan (pp. 559) observes : “This makes samyā, the sanskrit name for the dance called in Tāmil Kol-attam, in which a number of boys and girls or the latter only form themselves into two rows or into more complicated patterns, striking tāla with two coloured sticks (kol) of a span's length in both their hands. They may strike the two sticks in their own hands, as also spin around, turn and execute many movements striking the sticks of those that cross them in movements. It is this that came to be called Danda-rāsaka.” We may say that in Saurashtra and Gujarat, this is known as "Dandiyā rāsa'. now popular in other parts of the contry also, especially in Mahasashtra and is performed on auspicious occasions such as marriage etc., now a days, but necessarily in the nava-rātra-mahotsava in honour of mother Ambikā or Durgā.
But as observed earlier there is a term connected with Tāla, called samy, which is mentioned in the Tāla-Adhyāya of Bharata, i.e. Nā. Šā. XXXI, (vs. 31) (pp. 167, G.O.S. Vol IV). The Abh. (pp. 166, ibid) also quotes from Ch. 28, astā vimšaty adhāye.' (N.S. XXVIII. 18) (pp. 9, ibid). The word 'sannipāta' is also of similar connotation. 'Samya' occurs at N.S. XXXI. 171, (pp. 226), vs. 173, (pp. 227), vs. 175, 176, N.S. XXXI. 17 (pp. 158), again at pp. 177, 229, 479, 217, 158, 183, 255, 178, 170, 9, 255, 307, 248, 167, 258, 243, 157, 216, 253, 157, 159, 177 & 251 in various forms (Vol. IV). The HỊdayamgamā on samyā quotes the word sannipāta :
"samyā tu savyayoḥ pātaḥ satāla-kara-pādayoḥ, ubhayoḥ karayoḥ pātaḥ sannipāta iti smộtah.”
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