......KALIDASA, THE KRANTIKARI.....
Today, we will see the third of the topmost verses by Kalidasa....The poet who could see the extreme of human relation and its social values with dignity and propriety in social behaviour. In those days, people put importance on personal glory and ethics in every stage. We will see the glorification of the most sacred institution called relationship what we call today for marriage....Love marriage in those days and the glory it carried. It will be a surprise, friends, in pre Mahabharata age... Today's brow raiser.. love marriage had its dignity...Its status..With glory...And the great Kalidasa has portrayed it in the highest resplendency...
Shakuntala was a deserted baby brought up in a Hermitage in the deep forest far sway from society..In a restricted atmosphere of penance and renunciation to be given away in time to lead conjugal life. She had a devine origin and fell in love with king, Dushyanta and consumed the conjugal relation in the forest itself. The king went away with a promise to come for her hand with due procedure from the sage Kanwa. The fate prevailed and he was cursed to forget his promise putting everything in disarray. The issue came to light and the sage had to send her with a letter to the king. We will discuss the letter with its content, the only verse in Kalidasa's verse of four lines that speak the entire institution of marriage thread bare.
अस्मान् साधु विचिन्त्य संयमधना
नुच्चै: कुलं चात्मन-
स्त्वय्यस्या कथमप्यबान्धवकृताम्
स्नेहप्रवृत्तिं च ताम् ।
सामान्यप्रतिपत्तिपूर्वकमियं
दारेषु दृश्या त्वया
भाग्यायत्तमतःपरं न खलु तद
वाच्यं वधूबन्धुभिः ||
We will find the fantastic idea of relationship in Hindu family system. A girl who is an integral part of a joint family born as the integral part of blood and flesh of the parents, brought up with love and affection as the idol of the bosom, taken care of with all the attention, is given to another social unit with pleasure and hope to lead a joint family all of a sudden. We will also see on record the principle on which the institution of marriage rested and does now and the sweet relationship between in laws. In KANWA'S voice Kalidasa illustrates the wonder of ancient code of conduct in the institution called marriage... Which is much detested in present days loading the courts with burden. Let's see the magic..
This is the message of Kanva to Dushyanta concerning Sakuntala:
“Considering us hermits whose only wealth is tapasya , your own birth in a noble family, the love of Sakuntala for you in bringing about which her relatives had no role, you, as her husband, should give her an equal status and love among your wives. Anything beyond this will depend on her bhaagya or luck, the relatives of the bride have no say about that. “
1. Love is eternal and it is between two stake holders...Two love lorn souls. It never looks into the back grounds of the boy and the girl who are striken with thunderbolt. The most powerful sovereign king of the land sees a forest girl brought up in the lap of the nature and falls in love. He approaches the girl himself, asks her love by introducing him properly. He could have forcefully abducted her to his harem. No... He requests and convinces with justification and wins her heart. How decent !! He makes love to her with her will and promises to come back in a few days with proper royal manners to ask her hand from the sage. The girl doesn't cry foul or raises doubt on the man whom she had given her heart and body. She is his wife.
2. The king is cursed because he was thinking of the forest girl he impregnated after willing marriage called Gandharv marriage and neglected his duty of welcoming a guest...Again a sage called Durvasa.
No power or position...Instant punishment because he was none other than the most powerful king, by a begging brahmin to forget whom he was thinking to neglect his duty. Here, the king was not a cheat. He was loyal to his love and promise to the extent he couldn't attend the most ferocious sage. The Sage cursed him most cruelly in the harshest ever term to forget his love because a king has no privacy. His duty for the state is supreme.
3. The sages, the Brahmins had no wealth other than tapasya...Penance..Worship of the truth..Practice of detached life far from the mundane world. For truth and to teach the reality. To understand the truth and propagate.
4. At that time, dowry was prevailing but in a noble way not to treat it as a burden.. but as a respect to the newly Wed. Kanwa writes.. we are संयमधन.. penance is our wealth. We teach and train... We impart abstract...
5. A father writes to his son in law who has apparently ditched his his promise...his beloved...With respect...Reverence.. he requests with his views..His advice.. his explanatory suggestions what is to be done. No arrogance... No pride of being a cursing machine. He behaves with due respect.
6. He reminds the king of his duty in a sober voice. He reminds the king of his own decision in marrying the girl on his considered will and his duty.
7. He also tells him to give the girl his due respectful position among other Queens. He leaves everything on the judiciousness of the king..Knowing fully well his wrong doing. He respects his in law against his obvious fault.
8. Anything beyond this will depend on her bhaagya or luck, the relatives of the bride have no say about that. See friends.. the system at that time.. the rule was balanced. A woman was treated with respect in the society. Law was strictly enforced and rarely flouted. People in general were pure in mind...Purer than the present days. The girl child was trained to shoulder the responsibility of household with all its creativity. She had her own dignity. And man was self content...preferred acceptance to rebellion. No BP.. No tension.... Faith and reliance was the base on which human life moved.
Now friends, it is your time to tell me if I left something or spelt any word wrong... I wish you enjoy more. Please understand Kalidasa, the great.... And the charm of Sanskrit literature. Thanks.
©® SACHIDANANDA MISHRA
Today, we will see the third of the topmost verses by Kalidasa....The poet who could see the extreme of human relation and its social values with dignity and propriety in social behaviour. In those days, people put importance on personal glory and ethics in every stage. We will see the glorification of the most sacred institution called relationship what we call today for marriage....Love marriage in those days and the glory it carried. It will be a surprise, friends, in pre Mahabharata age... Today's brow raiser.. love marriage had its dignity...Its status..With glory...And the great Kalidasa has portrayed it in the highest resplendency...
Shakuntala was a deserted baby brought up in a Hermitage in the deep forest far sway from society..In a restricted atmosphere of penance and renunciation to be given away in time to lead conjugal life. She had a devine origin and fell in love with king, Dushyanta and consumed the conjugal relation in the forest itself. The king went away with a promise to come for her hand with due procedure from the sage Kanwa. The fate prevailed and he was cursed to forget his promise putting everything in disarray. The issue came to light and the sage had to send her with a letter to the king. We will discuss the letter with its content, the only verse in Kalidasa's verse of four lines that speak the entire institution of marriage thread bare.
अस्मान् साधु विचिन्त्य संयमधना
नुच्चै: कुलं चात्मन-
स्त्वय्यस्या कथमप्यबान्धवकृताम्
स्नेहप्रवृत्तिं च ताम् ।
सामान्यप्रतिपत्तिपूर्वकमियं
दारेषु दृश्या त्वया
भाग्यायत्तमतःपरं न खलु तद
वाच्यं वधूबन्धुभिः ||
We will find the fantastic idea of relationship in Hindu family system. A girl who is an integral part of a joint family born as the integral part of blood and flesh of the parents, brought up with love and affection as the idol of the bosom, taken care of with all the attention, is given to another social unit with pleasure and hope to lead a joint family all of a sudden. We will also see on record the principle on which the institution of marriage rested and does now and the sweet relationship between in laws. In KANWA'S voice Kalidasa illustrates the wonder of ancient code of conduct in the institution called marriage... Which is much detested in present days loading the courts with burden. Let's see the magic..
This is the message of Kanva to Dushyanta concerning Sakuntala:
“Considering us hermits whose only wealth is tapasya , your own birth in a noble family, the love of Sakuntala for you in bringing about which her relatives had no role, you, as her husband, should give her an equal status and love among your wives. Anything beyond this will depend on her bhaagya or luck, the relatives of the bride have no say about that. “
1. Love is eternal and it is between two stake holders...Two love lorn souls. It never looks into the back grounds of the boy and the girl who are striken with thunderbolt. The most powerful sovereign king of the land sees a forest girl brought up in the lap of the nature and falls in love. He approaches the girl himself, asks her love by introducing him properly. He could have forcefully abducted her to his harem. No... He requests and convinces with justification and wins her heart. How decent !! He makes love to her with her will and promises to come back in a few days with proper royal manners to ask her hand from the sage. The girl doesn't cry foul or raises doubt on the man whom she had given her heart and body. She is his wife.
2. The king is cursed because he was thinking of the forest girl he impregnated after willing marriage called Gandharv marriage and neglected his duty of welcoming a guest...Again a sage called Durvasa.
No power or position...Instant punishment because he was none other than the most powerful king, by a begging brahmin to forget whom he was thinking to neglect his duty. Here, the king was not a cheat. He was loyal to his love and promise to the extent he couldn't attend the most ferocious sage. The Sage cursed him most cruelly in the harshest ever term to forget his love because a king has no privacy. His duty for the state is supreme.
3. The sages, the Brahmins had no wealth other than tapasya...Penance..Worship of the truth..Practice of detached life far from the mundane world. For truth and to teach the reality. To understand the truth and propagate.
4. At that time, dowry was prevailing but in a noble way not to treat it as a burden.. but as a respect to the newly Wed. Kanwa writes.. we are संयमधन.. penance is our wealth. We teach and train... We impart abstract...
5. A father writes to his son in law who has apparently ditched his his promise...his beloved...With respect...Reverence.. he requests with his views..His advice.. his explanatory suggestions what is to be done. No arrogance... No pride of being a cursing machine. He behaves with due respect.
6. He reminds the king of his duty in a sober voice. He reminds the king of his own decision in marrying the girl on his considered will and his duty.
7. He also tells him to give the girl his due respectful position among other Queens. He leaves everything on the judiciousness of the king..Knowing fully well his wrong doing. He respects his in law against his obvious fault.
8. Anything beyond this will depend on her bhaagya or luck, the relatives of the bride have no say about that. See friends.. the system at that time.. the rule was balanced. A woman was treated with respect in the society. Law was strictly enforced and rarely flouted. People in general were pure in mind...Purer than the present days. The girl child was trained to shoulder the responsibility of household with all its creativity. She had her own dignity. And man was self content...preferred acceptance to rebellion. No BP.. No tension.... Faith and reliance was the base on which human life moved.
Now friends, it is your time to tell me if I left something or spelt any word wrong... I wish you enjoy more. Please understand Kalidasa, the great.... And the charm of Sanskrit literature. Thanks.
©® SACHIDANANDA MISHRA
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