KALIDASA.. HIS MAGIC LINES...
Friends, we will see another mind blowing verse from the ocean of gems by the magician called Kalidasa, the giant of world literature who stayed limited to a place where everybody enjoyed his works full throat but failed to give him his place till the very foreigners who underwent tremendous difficulties and humiliations to learn the most scientific language kept inside luck and key. It is pertinent to say, the great foreigner who had to take immense pain and suffering to learn the basics of the sanskrit language so that it could be a liitle understood and researched for advanced study of the treasuries that is known as sanskrit literature.
Sitting on a fresh cow dung painted floor, taking pure havishyanna once a day, practising chandrayana vrata, not looking at the teacher posited opposite to him back to back and daily with a limited hour of teaching for months together against a heavy financial offering as dakshina to the greedy and unethical brahmin who agreed to offer the devabhasha to a mlechha were the pains could be inflicted on anyone who brought this sweet language and through this the treasure before the world. Heads are bowed to those foreigners... who took interest to popularise sanskrit.
Let me hint on the points for public knowledge
Sanskrit fever grips Germany: 14 universities teaching India's ancient language struggle to meet demand as students clamour for courses..
While Sanskrit is a marker of Hindu nationalism for the BJP, it might be surprised, even shocked, to know that the first people to leave behind evidence of having spoken Sanskrit aren't Hindus or Indians – they were Syrians.
The Mattur village incentral Karnataka claims to have native speakers of Sanskrit among its population. Inhabitants of all castes learn Sanskrit starting in childhood and converse in the language. Even the local Muslims converse in Sanskrit.
St James Junior School in London, England, offers Sanskrit as part of the curriculum. In the United States, since September 2009, high school students have been able to receive credits as Independent Study or toward Foreign Language requirements by studying Sanskrit, as part of the "SAFL: Samskritam as a Foreign Language" program coordinated by Samskrita Bharati. In Australia, the Sydney private boys' high school Sydney Grammar School offers Sanskrit from years 7 through to 12, including for the Higher School Certificate.
We will be looking at the first verse of the 5th canto of Kumarasambhabam that illustrates the heart of a beautiful woman and her belief on the definition of beauty. Love, aesthetics, charm, beauty of a woman's body and mind are majestically portrayed in this verse which is unique and applicable to eternity cutting across geography, time and race of humanity and sensitiveness.
Goddess Parvati was the incarnation of Sati who sacrificed herself on the fire of hawan not to tolerate the insult of her husband by her father. She took birth as the daughter of Himalaya mountain and Menaka as Parvati to Wed again Lord Siva. She worshiped her Lord in deep penance daily as a young girl does by her simple beauty and dedication by wooing him at his place of penance by convincing him of her unquestioned love. But she fell to the mischievous plot of Devtas who wanted her to be wed to her paramour as early as possible for an early son with valore to kill the demon Tarakasura. Lord Siva was not so easy to handle and there came the third party agent, the Kandarpa..The great sex inciter.. to arouse the Lord Siva for instant insemination. The great disturbance happened. The Lord was forced to break penance by the arrow shot by the Mar who was burnt to death by the fire from the third eye of the king of Gods. He understood the matter and went away without looking at the Princess Parvati who was trying to win Him through love and worship. We are at the quoted verse now.
तथा समक्षं दहता मनोभबं
पिनाकिना भग्नमनोरथा सति
निनिन्द रुपं हृदयेन पार्बती
प्रियेषु सौभाग्यफला हि चारुता...
When, the princess saw the device inciter, Kandarpa burnt into ashes before her eyes by the Lord Pinaki, with her intention shattered, she blamed her beauty in her heart. She was shattered because she failed in her mission to win her Lord as husband. She was convinced that she could not attract the Lord by her body charm which is responsible to melt a male's detachment. It was she responsible to win heart. Between a male and a female, nothing plays more vital than the beauty or charm of body and mind for mutual attraction. No family background, wealth or education matter here. And it is another matter to attract the great Lord of detachment Himself. She was convinced her body charm was not enough to stand ground, because she could not hold Him for a moment in spite of the greatest device inciter on the field with his arrow shot. She was sure that the beauty of a girl stands to the ground only when she can satisfy her paramour. The test lies in the eye of the lover. No amount of dressing or painting is sufficient if it is not to the choice of her lover. Even simplicity and truthfulness with cool make up, if it is to her lover's choice, then she is undoubtedly the beauty of the world.प्रियेषु सौभाग्यफला हि चारुता... That is beauty which touches her lover's heart.
It is your time now friends to enjoy the verse with a short background and small facts on Sanskrit language.
©®SACHIDANANDA MISHRA.
Friends, we will see another mind blowing verse from the ocean of gems by the magician called Kalidasa, the giant of world literature who stayed limited to a place where everybody enjoyed his works full throat but failed to give him his place till the very foreigners who underwent tremendous difficulties and humiliations to learn the most scientific language kept inside luck and key. It is pertinent to say, the great foreigner who had to take immense pain and suffering to learn the basics of the sanskrit language so that it could be a liitle understood and researched for advanced study of the treasuries that is known as sanskrit literature.
Sitting on a fresh cow dung painted floor, taking pure havishyanna once a day, practising chandrayana vrata, not looking at the teacher posited opposite to him back to back and daily with a limited hour of teaching for months together against a heavy financial offering as dakshina to the greedy and unethical brahmin who agreed to offer the devabhasha to a mlechha were the pains could be inflicted on anyone who brought this sweet language and through this the treasure before the world. Heads are bowed to those foreigners... who took interest to popularise sanskrit.
Let me hint on the points for public knowledge
Sanskrit fever grips Germany: 14 universities teaching India's ancient language struggle to meet demand as students clamour for courses..
While Sanskrit is a marker of Hindu nationalism for the BJP, it might be surprised, even shocked, to know that the first people to leave behind evidence of having spoken Sanskrit aren't Hindus or Indians – they were Syrians.
The Mattur village incentral Karnataka claims to have native speakers of Sanskrit among its population. Inhabitants of all castes learn Sanskrit starting in childhood and converse in the language. Even the local Muslims converse in Sanskrit.
St James Junior School in London, England, offers Sanskrit as part of the curriculum. In the United States, since September 2009, high school students have been able to receive credits as Independent Study or toward Foreign Language requirements by studying Sanskrit, as part of the "SAFL: Samskritam as a Foreign Language" program coordinated by Samskrita Bharati. In Australia, the Sydney private boys' high school Sydney Grammar School offers Sanskrit from years 7 through to 12, including for the Higher School Certificate.
We will be looking at the first verse of the 5th canto of Kumarasambhabam that illustrates the heart of a beautiful woman and her belief on the definition of beauty. Love, aesthetics, charm, beauty of a woman's body and mind are majestically portrayed in this verse which is unique and applicable to eternity cutting across geography, time and race of humanity and sensitiveness.
Goddess Parvati was the incarnation of Sati who sacrificed herself on the fire of hawan not to tolerate the insult of her husband by her father. She took birth as the daughter of Himalaya mountain and Menaka as Parvati to Wed again Lord Siva. She worshiped her Lord in deep penance daily as a young girl does by her simple beauty and dedication by wooing him at his place of penance by convincing him of her unquestioned love. But she fell to the mischievous plot of Devtas who wanted her to be wed to her paramour as early as possible for an early son with valore to kill the demon Tarakasura. Lord Siva was not so easy to handle and there came the third party agent, the Kandarpa..The great sex inciter.. to arouse the Lord Siva for instant insemination. The great disturbance happened. The Lord was forced to break penance by the arrow shot by the Mar who was burnt to death by the fire from the third eye of the king of Gods. He understood the matter and went away without looking at the Princess Parvati who was trying to win Him through love and worship. We are at the quoted verse now.
तथा समक्षं दहता मनोभबं
पिनाकिना भग्नमनोरथा सति
निनिन्द रुपं हृदयेन पार्बती
प्रियेषु सौभाग्यफला हि चारुता...
When, the princess saw the device inciter, Kandarpa burnt into ashes before her eyes by the Lord Pinaki, with her intention shattered, she blamed her beauty in her heart. She was shattered because she failed in her mission to win her Lord as husband. She was convinced that she could not attract the Lord by her body charm which is responsible to melt a male's detachment. It was she responsible to win heart. Between a male and a female, nothing plays more vital than the beauty or charm of body and mind for mutual attraction. No family background, wealth or education matter here. And it is another matter to attract the great Lord of detachment Himself. She was convinced her body charm was not enough to stand ground, because she could not hold Him for a moment in spite of the greatest device inciter on the field with his arrow shot. She was sure that the beauty of a girl stands to the ground only when she can satisfy her paramour. The test lies in the eye of the lover. No amount of dressing or painting is sufficient if it is not to the choice of her lover. Even simplicity and truthfulness with cool make up, if it is to her lover's choice, then she is undoubtedly the beauty of the world.प्रियेषु सौभाग्यफला हि चारुता... That is beauty which touches her lover's heart.
It is your time now friends to enjoy the verse with a short background and small facts on Sanskrit language.
©®SACHIDANANDA MISHRA.
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