There are plenty of subject jokes, funny oneliners in various other subject areas even Karnataka sangita. Somehow the field of indology and indic studies has remained rather humorless. So here is a beginning:
More to come..
1.What is a naiyāyika's favorite Tamizh movie? guṇā
2.What did śankara say to the abominable snowman? Yeti Yeti
3.Why was the vyākaraṇa paṇdita never offered coffee. Because he declined it.
4. Why did the kāsmira śaiva love Halloween? Because he could trika treat.
5.Who is an advaita vedantins least favorite poet? Maya Angelou
6.What did pāṇini do when the other grammarians asked too many questions?
He became a grilled panini
7.What do you call a tortilla chip that defies death? Nachoketas.
8.Which are the smallest set of sūtra-s. Jai'mini' Sūtra-s.
16 comments:
A somewhat tortured one:
Why is the visarga in naraa imee like a bed?
A bed is a charpai (think Hindi). There is no sign of charpai (think Trig).
What sutras do polite engineer's study?
Apastambha sutras.
The question for your 3. is better as
Why did the vyākaraṇa paṇdita never drink the coffee that he was offered?
and the answer
Because he always declined it?
@turanga,
Phew, I finally got the think Trig reference! :)
Why was durvasa like a leaf?
Because he was born of 'a tree'
How do we know that Vyasa and Vishnu had some business dealings?
Because we know they exchanged money:
vyAsAya viShNu rUpAya vyAsa rUpAya viShNave...
Referring to 6., where were the other grammarians who asked Panini questions from?
From Africa. Because they were grillers.
Very nice idea. I am embarassed to admit that I do not get many of turanga's puns…
@elisa, that's OK. Sometimes I wonder whether I get them too.:-)
It is probably because they draw on too many domains. While it makes doing it easy (more elements to draw from), it becomes hard for the audience that does not share all the domains, - pun paNra paNDitan.
Another tortured one:
What does the vaiyalaraNi do with his tea when it is offered to him? Does he drink it?
No. Actually he swats it away (1.1.64).
I'm sorry for the stupid question. What is a vaiyalarani?
The first one is rather convoluted.There is no visarga in that phrase. charpai is the word for bed in hindi and there is no sine(4Pi) in Trigonometry. So that explains the first one.
I didn't get the Apastambha sutra one either. vyāsāya viṣṇu rūpāya is the phrase from the viṣṇu sahasranāma and refers to the Indian currency of rūpāy or rupee.
The last one should be vaiyākaraṇi due to the Pāṇiniyan 1.1.64 acah antya adi ti reference
@Vidya, right about the first one and the typo in the latest! There is a typo in the second one too. No apostrophe, sorry. And polite engineers are civil to everyone and you know what civil engineers learn to build. To make the last tortured one more explicit, for the word vaiyākaraṇi according to 1.1.64, Ti is i and i in tamil is a fly{:-<). It is probably a really bad pun as these puns go...
OK! An attempt to fix all typos, rephrase and string together all the grammer ones to make them more tied together...(:->)
Why did pāṇini never drink coffee that was offered to him?
He always declined it.
What did pāṇini do when the other grammarians asked too many questions?
He became a grilled pāṇini.
Where were the other grammarians who asked pāṇini questions from?
From Africa. Because they were grillers.
What does pāṇini do with his tea when it is offered to him? Does he drink it?
No. He swats it away (1.1.64).
(For grillers, think of a variant spelling of the sound that has an African connection)
The variant of 3. that I've heard (not in an Indic context!) goes something like this: "Why are celibate people bad at vyākaraṇa? Because when asked to conjugate, they decline."
So are the unhappily married ones. Because they conjugated when they should have declined.
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