Mallikamakarandanatakam

SR No.: 002644
Original Sutra Author: Ramchandra Mahakavi
Author: Punyavijay
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 212
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 10 MB

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परिशिष्टम् - ४ महाकविश्रीरामचन्द्रविरचित कतिपय नाटकानां रसग्रहणम्
( १ ) स रामः कविरुद्दामः प्रबन्धाधि प्रबध्य यः ।
प्रियां चमत्कृतिं प्रत्याहरति प्राणयति
क्षमाम् ॥
-- माणिक्यचन्द्रसूरिः (शान्तिनाथमहाकाव्ये)
(२) कविनोभाषाभित्र समृद्ध छे, सर्व वैदर्भी राति छे पटले यांचा पण सरलता माधुर्वे प्रसाद सारं जगाय छे. पण मानवस्यभावना जे गंभीर निरूपणथो, कोइ महान महान सत्यना दर्शनथी, के रसनी कोइ परा कोटियो कविओ अमरत्व प्राप्त करे छे ते तो आमां नथी एमज कहेवु जोइए. कविओना प्रथम वर्गमां आने न मूकी शकाय पण गूजरातना १३ मा सेकामां आवु नाटक लखायुं भजवायु पण हशे तेने माटे गुजरात मगरूर जरूर थई शके.
- रामनारायण पाठक संशोधक, खंड ३,
नलविलास नाटक (जैन साहित्य अंक २, अहमदाबाद १९८३)
(Free Translation: The poet's vocabulary is rich. He employs throughout the play the Vaidarbhi style. Naturally, when reading, it reveals the qualities of simplicity, sweetness, and lucidity. But it must be said that it fails to display a profound knowledge of human nature or his vision of great Truth, or his power of developing rasa to its zenith the qualities which entitle a poet to immortality. True, he cannot be placed in the rank of first-rate poets but such a play could be written and might have been even staged in the 13th century is a matter of which Gujarat can be legitimately proud.)
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3) Ramacandra, pupil of the great Hemacandra.. wrote, besides other plays, the Kaumudimitraṇanda in ten Acts. The work is wholly undramatic and is really the working up in the form of a play of a number of Katha incidents, presenting a result not unlike the plot of a modern pantomime... The work is, of course, wholly without interest other than that presented by so many marvels appealing to the sentiment of wonder in the audience. — Keith : The Sanskrit Drama, pp. 258-259.
It (Kaumudi-mirananda) is typical of the later play of this kind in having a complicated series of narrative, rather than dramatic, incidents..... The story resembles those of Dandin's Dasakumara-Carita, and the author might have done well if he had attempted to write in the same strain and