Transcript Savitri Speaking Splicing and Connecting Shraddhavan’s

SAVITRI PRESERVATION
SPLICING AND CONNECTING
SHRADDHAVAN’S READING
TO THE SAVITRI TEXT
THUS PHONETICALLY PRESERVING
SAVITRI IN AN ORAL VEDIC TRADITION
A proposal
by
Dr Raja Marathe
[email protected]
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"Savitri is a Mantra for the
transformation of the world"
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THE TEXTUAL SCOPE OF SAVITRI AND ITS
READING BY SHRADDHAVAN
A voluminous epic poem consisting of 12 Books,
49 Cantos, 171 Sections, about 5,000 Sentences,
23,837 Lines of text
 Each sentences runs between 1 to 16 lines the
average being about 4 lines of text, or about 20
words.
 Shraddhavan’s remarkable reading takes 49
hours and 19 minutes time, and consists of 171
mp3 files occupying 12 folders, 171 files of 1.4
GB of disk space
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Savitri is a poem in iambic pentameter written in
chaste English of the 20th century.
 It has Greek, French, German, Latin words and
those in English not in common use
 Most contemporary readers are not familiar with
the correct pronunciation of these words and
while reading pronounce them with their native
accent; .thus losing the rythm of the iambic
pentameter.
 In the process the Mantric power of Sri
Aurobindo’s poetry is lost.
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THE PROBLEM OF READING SAVITRI - I
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THE PROBLEM OF READING SAVITRI - II
In addition, Savitri is dealing in subject matter of
cosmic scope and time bordering on Eternity and
Infinity.
 It is also dealing with several yogic experiences
and planes of being unfamiliar to most readers.
 As a result it requires intense concentration and
repeated readings of the sentences to grasp the
meaning or at least hints to understanding Sri
Aurobindo
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The incredible reading of Savitri by Shraddhavan
solves the problem.
 Shraddhavan’s, (her being a born native speaker
of the English language) reading is in almost the
same accent, and certainly in the same rhythm
that Sri Aurobindo intended; and that make it
possible for listeners Savitri over the coming
generations of Savitri readers to receive the
Mantric power of Savitri.
 But as the recording is continuous it is difficult, if
not impossible, to go back to a sentence
repeatedly to listen to it many times so that the
meaning can be grasped and the Mantric power
fully received in the reader’s consciousness.
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The solution is to splice the recording sentence by
sentence, name the audio segments in a systematic
manner, insert the hyperlinks to the audio segments
at appropriate places in the text, so that the reader
can listen to the recording sentence by sentence as
many times as he needs.
Dr Raja Marathe has done a sample of two complete
cantos Book One Canto I and book Three Canto I to
demonstrate the feasibility of this work. This has
been done over a period of the last two weeks
It would take an average time of one week per canto
to do this in a systematic manner, to insert the
appropriate hyperlinks, to check the accuracy, and
make corrections if any.
There are 49 cantos in Savitri and so that works out
to be a period of about a year.
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THE SOLUTION
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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as an Epic poem will last for many
hundreds, if not thousands of years. It has the same status
as a fifth Veda.
Its Mantric power can be manifested if it is recited and
heard correctly in the coming millennium
English language will last for many, many centuries and
the vocabulary may not change; but as it is and will be
spoken from different cultures, the accents and
pronunciation will change over a period of time.
Thus the original intended rhythm as envisaged by Sri
Aurobindo in the construction of iambic pentameter of the
lines of Savitri might get lost over a period of time.
This work will preserve the original pronunciation and
rhythm and thus the Mantric power of Savitri over
millennium.
Thus work follows an age-old oral tradition for Savitri, the
fifth Veda, using modern technology.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORK
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RESOURCE AND FRAMEWORK
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This work will be done single-handedly by Dr Raja
Marathe starting June 8th 2014 and it is expected to
be completed by Feb Darshan
A new web site http : / / savitri.net.in has been
created for this purpose.
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Sri Aurobindo's
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Savitri - A Legend and A Symbol
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"Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun,
goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down
and is born to save“
Quote from the Author's note by Sri Aurobindo
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