An epitome of poetic beauty
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Suryanarayana’s talk on ‘Manucharitra’ highlighted nuances of Peddana’s immortal work.
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‘Manucharitra’ deciphered Kompella Rama Suryanarayana.
A talk on Manucharitra ‘Kavitha Soundaryam’ was organised thanks to the interest evinced by the secretary of VMDA, G.R.K. Prasad (Rambabu), at Kalabharathi last Wednesday. Delivered by Dean, faculty of culture and liter
ature, Rastreeya Samskrithika Vidyapeeth, Tirupathi, Kompella Rama Suryanarayana (Sahitya and Bhasha Praveena, MA Sanskrit and MA Telugu, with specialisation in Nyaya and Tarka sastras), it turned out to be a discernible discourse.
The Prabandha kavya Manucharitra is a paradigmatic revelation of an ever effulgent poesy by Allasani Peddana. He was the most revered among the Ashtadiggaja poets in the court of Krishna Deva Raya of the 15th century. Peddana, scripting the kavya, not only transcended all expectations fulfilling the ambition of the emperor, a great patron-poet of Telugu, but also dedicated it to him.
Rayalu himself carried the palanquin in which the kavya was brought to the Bhuvanavijaya sabha and honoured the poet by adorning a gold fetter on his ankle. These details were well elucidated by former professor of department of Telugu, Andhra University, K. Malayavasini, in her opening remarks as the chief guest of the evening.
Prof. Kompella, who translated Dhwanyalokam of Anandavardhana of the 9th century in Sanskrit into idiomatic Telugu, reciting many a poem from Manucharitra with intensely dulcet intonation, eruditely rendered a comprehensive analysis of the multifarious facets of expression contained in them with scholarly discernment. Then he dealt in detail the episodes which describe how the main character Pravara, a pious and pragmatic follower of vaidika dharma as it gets enunciated in Vedas, got landed unawares on the Himalayas by the miraculous power of the lotion smeared on his feet by a Siddha. He literally took all listeners on a sojourn of the serene surroundings of the places thus seen by Pravara, like Parvathi’s involvement in penance, Bhagiratha did penance to get Ganga descend on to the earth, Manmadha was reduced to ashes and so on in the process.
Explicating similarly the incident of Pravara’s meeting with Varudhini and the depiction of her passion for him along with his firm belief in dharma, he did not allow himself to fall a prey to her advances, all in the form of a dialogue in poetry, Kompella elaborated on Peddana’s creative genius. Highlighting the conviction with which Peddana went in favour of dharma and his conception of an ideal poet-writer, Kompella concluded attracting reverberating applause.
A.R.S
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