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With the cool winds of
neighbouring tanks.
of the early
morn, he has to make himself ready for the discharge of
his sacred duty, after sufficiently refreshing
g himself by the
energizing sleep overnight.sg shols red do noagee
The message or the Sandesa is the crowning item in
hearty and must be
The physical words
as directed by the
What else can be more
the kavya. And as such it must be
couched in the language of the heart.
conveying it must necessarily be
originator of this type of kavyas.
hearty here than an actual picture of Rama's sufferings
and wailings in actually hearing of and then realizing the
sudden loss of his beloved Sita? Lovers divine each
other's sufferings during their periods of separation. The
immortal Valmiki has, in
in his own inimitable style, recorded
those unhappy moments and the still more unhappy and
pitiable agonies of Rama in the Dandaka forest, soon
after his dear Sita was mercilessly snatched away from
him. Instead of drawing upon his own imagination as
use of the
does Kalidasa, Venkatanatha has amply made use
ready-made material available at hand. As we have already
inferred, his very purpose is to popularize some of the
best thoughts of Valmiki. A sense of appreciation of the
beautiful elsewhere, coupled with a desire to share with
others the discovered beauty, and a humble suppression
of the self before what is honestly believed to be more
sublime have perhaps made Venkatanatha adopt the course
he actually did. But to proceed:
JE
on to 19
the
To make his presence known to Sita, the Hamsa is
directed to softly sing the praises of the two families of
Dasaratha and Janaka. This was exactly what the earlier
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With the cool winds of
neighbouring tanks.
of the early
morn, he has to make himself ready for the discharge of
his sacred duty, after sufficiently refreshing
g himself by the
energizing sleep overnight.sg shols red do noagee
The message or the Sandesa is the crowning item in
hearty and must be
The physical words
as directed by the
What else can be more
the kavya. And as such it must be
couched in the language of the heart.
conveying it must necessarily be
originator of this type of kavyas.
hearty here than an actual picture of Rama's sufferings
and wailings in actually hearing of and then realizing the
sudden loss of his beloved Sita? Lovers divine each
other's sufferings during their periods of separation. The
immortal Valmiki has, in
in his own inimitable style, recorded
those unhappy moments and the still more unhappy and
pitiable agonies of Rama in the Dandaka forest, soon
after his dear Sita was mercilessly snatched away from
him. Instead of drawing upon his own imagination as
use of the
does Kalidasa, Venkatanatha has amply made use
ready-made material available at hand. As we have already
inferred, his very purpose is to popularize some of the
best thoughts of Valmiki. A sense of appreciation of the
beautiful elsewhere, coupled with a desire to share with
others the discovered beauty, and a humble suppression
of the self before what is honestly believed to be more
sublime have perhaps made Venkatanatha adopt the course
he actually did. But to proceed:
JE
on to 19
the
To make his presence known to Sita, the Hamsa is
directed to softly sing the praises of the two families of
Dasaratha and Janaka. This was exactly what the earlier