On Kalidas

[Rajinder Sandhir]

Dear Srini   Very enlightened to learn more about the poet, Kalidasa. Keep up the mission of educating us poor in knowledge, Indians  who know more about Shakespeare, Wordsworth, etc. than our own poets and witty persons like Tenalirama, Tansen and Bulle Shah.   Affectionately Rajinder Sandhir Delhi 110 076     Sent from Mail for Windows 10   From: cnu pne Sent: Monday, February 1, 2021 2:13 AM To: Rajinder Sandhir Cc: Cnu Pne; Rajaram Krishnamurthy; Seshadri V; iyer; thatha patty Subject: Re: Who are you   Respected sirs I am reminded about the great kalldas and his works.  Was greatly infused with MEGHDOOT A POET imagination and lyrical beauty. During raja bhoj the pandits have used duffer kalidas to make highly intelligent proundy princess to be his wife. If you come towards vijayanagar you will know TENALIRAMA was impressed by humorous and  presence of mind by kali and blesses   Your constructive observation will encourage members to be more knowledgeable Thanks   On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 9:55 AM Rajinder Sandhir <rajinder.sand...@gmail.com> wrote: A very good parable! Sent from my iPhone On 31-Jan-2021, at 11:49 AM, Rajaram Krishnamurthy <keyarinc...@gmail.com> wrote:  Kalidasan Mr Srinivasan Saraswathi dialogue in Sanskrit is with me in my book shelf and when I lay hand shall release it; in the meantime, Kalidasan whom I like more than the Milton (simile) and Shakespeare (dramatic) charm with the Bhojan can be seen . These verses are translated in Tamil too. It was a common saying that in Raja Bhoja’s kingdom, Dhara everyone was a poet. An ambassador from a far-off country was highly skeptical of this, and decided to verify it for himself. So off he went into the kingdom far away from the king’s palace. After a long search, he found a poor weaver hard at work. At last, the ambassador thought that he had finally found someone who would certainly not be able to do justice to the tag of a poet. So, taking the weaver with him, he arrived at the palace of Bhoja. Here are the lines sung by the weaver at the palace: काव्यं करोमि नहि चारुतरं करोमि यत्नात् करोमि यदि चारुतरं करोमि । भूपालमौलिमणिमन्डितपादपीठ हे भोजरोज कवयामि वयामि यामि ।। Translation: I compose poetry but not very well. If I make an effort, I would be able to do well. Oh One whose footrest is encrusted with jewels from the crowns of kings, Oh Raja Bhoja, I compose poetry, I weave, (and now) I leave. In the palace of Bhoja was that jewel among poets, Kalidasa. One day Bhoja decided to play a nice trick on our unsuspecting friend. Bhoja took a courtier with him to Kalidasa’s home. When Kalidasa opened the door, Bhoja hid himself behind it. The courtier entered Kalidasa’s home and broke the news that their beloved Raja Bhoja had passed away. Kalidasa was overwhelmed with emotion, and composed the following verses impromptu: अद्य धारा निराधारा निरालम्बा सरस्वती। पंडिताः खंडिताः सर्वे भोजराजे दिवंगते।। That is, “Today Dhara is without support. The Goddess of Learning, Saraswati is also without support. All scholars are overwhelmed with grief at the departure of Raja Bhoja to heaven.” On hearing these beautifully composed lines and overcome with emotion at the grief felt by his faithful poet at his passing away, Bhoja revealed himself from behind the door. Color returned to Kalidasa’s face on seeing his beloved master. Bhoja asked Kalidasa to repeat the lines he had composed just a few moments back.Kalidasa, the most versatile among those who can be called versatile, replied thus: अद्य धारा सदाधारा सदालम्बा सरस्वती। पंडिताः मंडिताः सर्वे भोजराजे भुवंगते।। which means, “Today Dhara is ever supported, and so is Goddess Saraswati. All scholars are adorned now that Raja Bhoja has descended on earth.” स्मयमानमायताक्ष्याः किञ्चिदभिव्यक्तदशनशोभि मुखम् । असमग्रलक्ष्यकेसरमुच्छ्वसदिव पङ्कजं दृष्टम् ॥(माल. २.१०) smayamānamāyatākṣyāḥ kiñcidabhivyaktadaśanaśobhi mukham । asamagralakṣyakesaramucchvasadiva paṅkajaṃ dṛṣṭam ॥ (māla. 2.10) The face of the girl with big, beautiful eyes, and whose teeth are slightly seen because her smile is looking like a lotus flower, which has just started blossoming, and whose fibers are partially visible. कस्यात्यन्तं सुखमुपनतं दुःखमेकान्ततो वा नीचैर्गच्छत्युपरिच दशा चक्रनेमिक्रमेण। kasyātyantaṃ sukhamupanataṃ duḥkhamekāntato vā nīcairgacchatyuparica daśā cakranemikrameṇa। No one gets always sorrow or always happiness. States (of happiness and sorrow) keep turning around just as the spokes of a wheel keep going up and down. Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava, which describes the advent of the vernal season providing an effective excitant for Siva's love for Parvati: … “The Palasa flowers, not fully opened and hence curved like the crescent moon and exceedingly red, looked like the fresh nail-imprints of the Spring (Vasanta, in masculine gender) as it were on the limbs of the Sylvan Lands (Vanasthali, in feminine gender) during their first intimate union.”  The expressions, balendu-vakrani, atilohitani and sad yo vasantena samagatani, have, in a delicate manner, been used just to present a simple description of natural state of things; still the delightful figure of speech (i.e. simile) involved in the words, nakhaksataniva, gets naturally related to them without the slightest strain on the reader's mind, and creates genuine aesthetic delight. Again, the sukumara marga consists in giving prominence to the intrinsic or natural form of an object in preference to the external and artificial touch given to it by learning or technical skill (vyutpatti).  KR IRS  31121   On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 at 01:32, 'venkat giri' via iyer123 <iyer...@googlegroups.com> wrote:   Respected Sir,                          Kalidasa ( कालिदास:  4th–5th century CE)  was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest playwright and dramatist. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems.    Kālidāsa is the author of two mahakavyas, Kumārasambhava and Raghuvaṃśa . Kālidāsa also wrote two khandakavyas (minor poems): Ṛitusaṃhāra , Meghadūta. Kālidāsa wrote three plays.  Abhijñānaśākuntalam, Mālavikāgnimitram, Vikramōrvaśīyam           Once upon a time, a proud princess rejected many souls of men due to her beauty and knowledge. Indeed, the local pundits who could not defeat her of knowledge, planned to marry her with a fool. Revenge was the cause, may be defeat too. United they were in search of a foolish man. One day they came across a man who was cutting a branch of a tree sitting on the same branch. He was innocent, they thought him fool.        They decided and choose him as a foolish man to be married with the proud princess and accordingly presented kalidas as a man of wisdom. They were married and later on princess realized that she has been duped. She drove away KALIDAS out of her palace. Innocent, poor KALIDAS  could not realize any thing but felt insulted.                          Goddess Saraswati appeared before him and wanted to know the reason behind of his act to kill him. Goddess came to know every thing, she requested him to take a bath in the river. KALIDAS was amazed to his surprise; he was uttering the difficult verses of literal value. Goddess Sarasvati's blessing made all these possible.                         Thus proudness, negative thoughts and revenge transformed an innocent man to a man of wisdom, a great poet of his time. Ultimately a blessing in disguise which he never knew of.  In RAGHUVAMSA KALIDAS says           The sky is full of stars and planets, but yet one moon gives more light than others in the night.           Likewise there are one thousand kings, but yet they say that this king of Magadha (Bimbisara) is the best   (Raghuvamsa 6-22).   उपमा कालिदासस्य भारवेरर्थगौरवम् । दण्डिनः पदलालित्यं माघे सन्ति त्रयो गुणाः ॥   upamā kālidāsasya bhāraverarthagauravam | daṇḍinaḥ padalālityaṃ māghe santi trayo guṇāḥ ||    “Simile is Kalidas’ forte, Bharavi – density of meaning; Dandi – simplicity and Magha possesses all three qualitites!”     Regards V.Sridharan Trichy       -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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