09-30-2009, 04:55 AM
I must make clear my ignorance in post-apabhraMsha evolution of Indo-Aryan prosody, so my explanation might not be correct.
Nevertheless:
In saMskR^ita we have the concept or rIti or style in which the diction is laid out. All these rIti's have regional names: vaidarbhI (kAlidAsa, padmagupta the poetess vijayA~NkA are famous for this), gauDI, pa~nchAlI, lATikA mAgadhI etc. By the classical period when these rIti-s are discussed we find that there is no particular geographical concentration of them in those parts of the country. For example after kAlidAsa the next famous vaidarbhI user vijayA~nkA is from karnATa. So I suspect the rIti name might have had some early geographical link due to some exemplars chosen from poets of those regions but as they became widespread these names were lost any geographic implication. Similarly I think we some of the Hindi meters might have been designated in some early phase by exemplars coming from such regions. Yet other are not geographic like dohA or Chand. Also I think there is rAg in hindustAnI called soraThA ? It may have similarly acquired its name.
Nevertheless:
In saMskR^ita we have the concept or rIti or style in which the diction is laid out. All these rIti's have regional names: vaidarbhI (kAlidAsa, padmagupta the poetess vijayA~NkA are famous for this), gauDI, pa~nchAlI, lATikA mAgadhI etc. By the classical period when these rIti-s are discussed we find that there is no particular geographical concentration of them in those parts of the country. For example after kAlidAsa the next famous vaidarbhI user vijayA~nkA is from karnATa. So I suspect the rIti name might have had some early geographical link due to some exemplars chosen from poets of those regions but as they became widespread these names were lost any geographic implication. Similarly I think we some of the Hindi meters might have been designated in some early phase by exemplars coming from such regions. Yet other are not geographic like dohA or Chand. Also I think there is rAg in hindustAnI called soraThA ? It may have similarly acquired its name.