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Even a casual effort to unfold the subtle twists in the storyline of any `kavya' requires high scholarship. If it comes to making discerningly an unravelling sojourn of the poetic heart of the pleromatic soul involved in the `Raghuvamsam' of the ever great poet Kalidasa, it is needless to emphasise that it demands a genius of a mind backed up by profundity of knowledge, especially of the intricacies of the Sanskrit grammar and the norms of the prosody that ensigns its idiom, imagery and acumen.
Renowned Maddulapalli Dattatreya Sastry, who was featured by Sahitya Surabhi in the Builders Association Hall to deliver a discourse on the unique classic as the first monthly schedule of its second year of its literary activity, seemed to be an embodiment of all such scholarly attributes. No wonder, he commands respect from all alike all over, the elite and the lovers of classical literature in particular.
Being well versed in the `Mantrasastra' as well, he started his lecture explaining the auspicious significance of the presence of the syllables, either `Va' or `Ra' in almost all the titles of Kalidasa's works - Malavikagnimitram, Vikramorvasiyam, Kumarasambhavam, Ritusamharam, etc. The occurrence of the both in Raghuvamsam is a novelty in itself, as the work stands acclaimed to be an ethereal evolvement of poetry in the hands of Kalidas. Sastry went on explaining how the poet's flowing imagery marvellously got transliterated into sublimity with the insuperable choice of the most appropriate syllables and hence the phraseology meaningfully empathising the incidence of the purported event of significance. He elaborated giving examples of the choicest usage of words - Kumara, Putra, Tanaya for son, Bharya, Patni, Kalatra for wife and so on.
Later, Sastry dealt in brief the stories of the 29 successors of the Surya or the Ikshwaku lineage as described or sometimes only enumerated in the `kavya' starting with the emperor Dileepa. Posing a question to himself as to who is greater between Brahma and Kavi (poet), he convincingly confirmed that the latter was the greater as Brahma created only six rasas while the Kavi is capable of creating all the navarasas (emotional attributes). The chief guest, M. Vijayagopal, professor in Andhra Medical College's Department of Psychiatry, the president of Surabhi, V. Kalyana Rama Rao, who chaired the session, its secretary, O. Rajarajeswari Prasad, P.V. Krishnaiah, Rambhatla N. Sarma, PVRK Murthy and Peri Subbaraya Sastry among others who participated in the discussion that followed, provided a vibrant finale.
A. RAMALINGA SASTRY
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