This Carnatic Music reader series introduces a systematic study of Carnatic Music with the help of western staff notation. But since each Kriti is addressed to one god or goddess, only the Singular is discussed here.LEARNING CARNATIC MUSIC THROUGH WESTERN STAFF NOTATION. All nouns have Plural as well as Dual ( a special number in Sanskrit for two units only) forms and these also have Vibhaktis. PS: These are examples of Vibhaktis for the Singular form only. “ Practice devotion unto Ramachandra”)Įighth Vibhakti –“ Hey Ramachandra” – O Ramachandra! Seventh Vibhakti – “RamachandrE” – In Ramachandra or Unto Ramachandra (eg. Sixth Vibhakti - “Ramachandrasya” – Of Ramachandra (eg. “Salutations to Ramachandra”)įifth Vibhakti - “RamachandrAt” – From Ramachandra or Than Ramachandra(eg, “There is none greater than Ramachandra”) “I am protected by Ramachandra”)įourth Vibhakti - “RamachandrAya” – To Ramachandra or For Ramachandra (eg. Third Vibhakti - “RamachandrENa” – By Ramachandra or With Ramachandra (eg.

Second Vibhakti - “Ramachandram”– Ramachandra is the object (eg. For example if we take the noun “Ramachandra”, the eight forms would be:įirst Vibhakti - “Ramachandrah”– Ramachandra is the subject (eg. This means that the God or Goddess of the Kriti could be referred to in any of these eight variations. Muthuswamy Dikshitar has composed Kritis in all eight Vibhaktis. Eighth Vibhakti – “Sambodhana Prathama” – is to address or call out that noun.Seventh Vibhakti – “saptamI” – means in, on, at, or unto that noun.Sixth Vibhakti – “ShaShThI” – means of that noun.Fifth Vibhakti – “pancamI” – means from or than or since that noun.

Fourth Vibhakti – “caturthI” – means to or for that noun.Third Vibhakti – “tRtIyA” – means by or with that noun.Second Vibhakti – “dvitIyA” - means that the particular noun is the Object of the sentence.First Vibhakti – “prathamA” - means that the particular noun is the Subject of the sentence.So we commonly say there are seven Vibhkatis. There are eight Vibhaktis in Sanskrit, of which the eighth is only a sub-category of the first one. In English, prepositions such as by, for, from, in etc., serve the same need. These are called “cases” or “case endings” in languages like Latin and “VEttrumai” (வேற்றுமை) or “VEttrumai urubugal” (வேற்றுமை உருபுகள்) in Tamil.Įnglish does not have the concept of “case endings” as it a non-inflectional language. The grammatical term Vibhakti means “variations” and refers to the various forms that a noun can take.

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