Pranam
RITUSAMHARA by Kalidasan (seasons changes described of the nature)
*1 **निपातयन्त्यः* *परितस्* *तटद्रुमान्*
*प्रवृद्धवेगैः* *सलिलैर्* *अनिर्मलैः।*
*स्त्रियः* *सुदुष्टा* *इव* *जातविभ्रमाः*
*प्रयान्ति* *नद्यस्* *त्वरितम्* *पयोनिधिम्॥*
* nipaatayantyaH paritaH taTa drumaan *
* pravR^iddha vegaiH salilaiH anirmalaiH *
* striyaH su duSTaa iva jaata vibhramaaH *
* prayaanti nadyaH tvaritam payonidhim *
* like women blind in love*
* mindlessly straying from the path of virtue,*
* dirty rivulets in flood rush towards the ocean,*
* uprooting the trees on their banks. verse 2.7 p. 87*
*-- pIna stana uraHsthala bhAga shobhAm-*
* AsAdya tat pIDana jAta khedaH |*
* triNa-agra lagnaiH tuhinaiH patadbhir-*
* AkrandatIva uShasi shItakAlaH*
* the dew drops resting*
* on the tips of morning grass are tears of sorrow*
* shed by hemanta,*
* at seeing the lovers fondling the breasts of their beloveds*
* at the pain suffered by those big, round mounds, *
* so delectable to look at. (4.7)*
*.(HOT SUMMER 2021 APR) By Kalidasan*
2 Antelopes unable to bear the sun’s blinding glare
with parched throats and thirsty tongues, jump
towards the distant sky – dark like the fine powered
collyrium, thinking it as a sheet of water in another jungle.
Tormented by the sun’s savage rays
scorched by dust , the Cobra pants
time and again with his hood drooped
as he creeps to rest in a peacock’s shade.
Lion, the lord of beasts, lolls his tongue,
pants loudly, his jaws wide-open, mane
shaking, powerless with intense thirst
he ignores the elephant though nearby.
Unafraid of the lion anymore, elephants
spray cool water from their trunks
to soothe their ears from the blistering sun
suffering from intense thirst
they roam searching for water.
A peacock, breathless, struck with the sun’s piercing
rays like burning flames of sacred fire on the altar,
lets the snake live, which pokes its head
into the discs of his dazzling plumes.
Singed by the scorching sun rays
frogs leap out of the muddy marsh
and sit under the parasol hood
of a deadly cobra – tired and thirsty.
With foaming mouths and rose tongues
wild buffaloes emerge from the hill caverns
frenzied by thirst, their vision blurred,
snouts raised in the air sniffing water.
3 (Dancing in Rain) In Ritusamhara, Kalidasa continues to delight us with
these vivid descriptions of plants, insects and flowers in the rainy season
–
Like jade fragments, the green grass rises
spreading its blades to catch raindrops,
fresh leaf-buds burst from the Kandali plants,
Indragopaka insects make a riot of crimson, green,
purple and gold, the earth is draped in colourful
jewels like an elegant and charming woman.
Roused by the pleasing sound of thundering clouds
a pride of amorous peacocks fill the air
with their joyous screams welcoming the rain,
throwing themselves into the love-play of billing and fondling
and begin to dance spreading out their resplendent feathers.
Wild elephants, delirious, trumpet endlessly
as if challenging the thundering clouds
their secreting temples resemble a blue
lotus frequented by the honey bees.
*4 Kasa blossoms, silver moon, white hamsas, blooming lilies, fragrant
white jasmine and take them along. (cool breeze and night charm)*
The earth wrapped in Kasa blossoms,
nights lit up with silver moon
river currents white with hamsas
and ponds with newly bloomed lilies
forests – a riot of saptachadda trees
bowing gently with the weight of flowers,
gardens fragrant with malati blooms,
white reigns all around, pleasing our eyes.
The sky is deep blue like glossy collyrium
The earth is glowing like dawn tinged
pink by Bandhuka pollen, fields bright
green with blooming Kalama rice,
whose young heart would not throb
with sensuous longing?
The breeze caresses gently the blooming flower buds
and tender young leaves on swaying boughs of Kodivara tree
Among the soft whispering of the leaves, the delirious bees
suck trickling honey greedily. Whose heart would not overflow
with joy looking at these lovely trees?
The Shyamaa creepers’ twigs full of flowers
outrival the grace of women’s jeweled arms
and the malati blossoms entwined
with flowering Asoka vie with the sparkling
teeth of women smiling radiantly.
At sunrise, aroused by sun rays
Pankaja opens up like the glowing
face of a young woman, while
the moon turns pale at dawn
the smile vanishes from the Kumuda petals
like the smile of young hearts
when their lovers are gone far away.
*5 Role of plants and animals in arousing passion in young hearts.** (
Love season) *
Young women rub Kalakeya perfumed powder
on their bodies and tattoo their faces
blossoming like lotus with the remains
of the foliage, and perfume their hair
with the incense of Kakaguru as they
get ready to meet their lovers to make love.
[Kalakeya: Fragrant turmeric powder
Kakaguru: Resins of Aloe Vera]
The fields covered with ripened paddy
as far as eyes can see, their boundaries
full of herd of does, midlands filled with
sweet cries of graceful demoiselle crane,
ah! what passion they arouse in heart!
Wives aching for love, their mouth perfumed
with flower-wine, retire to their bedchambers
filled with fragrance of aguru incense, carrying
betel rolls, chaplets and sensuous perfumes. 5
[Aguru: black aloe]
(WINTER ARRIVAL) THEN THE SPRING
Shining like stars, their voluptuous breasts held
tightly by lovely bodices, gorgeous thighs covered
in colourful silk, fragrant flowers adorning
their hair, women welcome the winter’s arrival.
Spring arrives like a warrior armed with spiky mango blossoms and humming
bees.
The warrior spring comes completely armoured
my love, armed with spiky shafts of mango blossoms
his burnished bowstring made of humming bees
he pierces the hearts of lovers with his flower arrows.
Fresh bloom of Karnikaras on their ears,
a chaplet of Ashoka flowers and full blooms
of Navamallika vines on their curly dark hair,
magnify the sensuality of beautiful women.
Crazy cuckoo drunk on mango nectar,
as drunk with wine, kisses his partner
honeybees too hidden inside lotus petals
hum sweet sounds to their sweethearts.
Spring has brought forth groves of flowering
Palasha trees swinging in the wind, bowed
with loads of
*flowers resembling raging fire *and the earth resembles a just-married
bride
dressed in elegant radiant red attire.
Kalidasa’s poems don’t merely acknowledge the interrelationship between
humans and nonhuman realms but go beyond it in underlining the vital role
the flora and fauna *play in shaping human culture *and *civilisation* and
how in their absence we humans would be reduced to nothing but machines.
Kalidasa’s genius lies in bringing together ecological with sensual and
creating everlasting sensual *Eco poetry.*
KR IRS 3421
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 at 08:52, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
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> *Mar*Nature and our Relationship with Nature
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> Science has landed us in mechanical and non emotional relationship with
> nature. We find machines and machines everywhere. I do not know whether
> there are already developed or under development, meters or instruments
> that give the sex readiness of the spouse. Killing nature and destroying
> nature is euphemized as the science of economics, which is protesting that
> it just is a branch of the Newtonian mechanics. Economics upholds human
> lives as the lives of the economic persons, who just mechanically and cost
> effectively, consume the killed nature or wealth, produces the same wealth
> by destroying nature, subjects that wealth in the non emotional and
> mechanical demand and supply curves and the resulting distribution of the
> wealth among the economic or mechanized persons. The entire biosphere is
> just economic resource or livestock, not emotional complement. This
> philosophy of the monster is now taught to the students, to make them
> employable as monsters that destroy nature. It is called career.
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> When you go on destroying nature, what next, when no nature is left for
> the economic murder? Strangely we depend more on new technologies to create
> jobs. What is urgently needed is the task of bringing nature to health by
> striving as Sages to tend lovingly every organism. As it is the stupid idea
> of competition is creating the crash of huge business giants, and one does
> not know when the new economic crash will happen, and when the solution, a
> very big war has to be resorted to, to create employment. There is demand
> for Hitlers today. But can there be any after employment after nuclear
> weapons?
>
> The hiding economic mandarins, of the world, busy as they are to create
> customers for the horrible and very destructive weapons, and convert whole
> nations ridden with debts that simply cannot be repaid, are now weighing
> the pros and cons of manufacturing another big war.
>
> The central, key or the only subject matter of Quantum Physics is
> consciousness. But that subject is avoided in every science. Prayer to God
> has become an economic strategy. And God has to be sold to the strategy of
> helping one exclusively, even when what is prayed for is economic
> destruction of nature. Is there anyone praying to God to save nature? The
> lower layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere, is converted into the
> sphere of poisonous fumes.
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> We no longer get inspiration from nature. What you write, till yesterday
> was subjected to mutilation by the mechanized and Newtonian editor, who
> unnerved every writer with words like clarity, precision etc,ignoring the
> fact that the very emotional basis of the expression in the writing is gone
> because of the Newtonian editing.
>
> The only method of creating employment is to create jobs that protect and
> preserve the freedom of nature, to grow freely and spontaneously.
>
> Today, one cannot find a fruit that is not poisoned by carbide or some
> other poisonous spray. All water bodies have been poisoned. The air has
> become fume. Still we have the industry tycoons who are the VVVVVVVIPs.
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> YM
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