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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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INTRODUCTION.
inspiration, it wants that orignal energy that can alone move a popular concourse. But regarded as an ideal dramama series of tableaux vivans presenting faithful portraitures of the adored object of a large body of enthusiasts—of one who was not so much a person as a personified principle,-the work will always command the esteem of the lovers of literary worth. Nor is this at all inconsistent. We have evidence enough in English literature that a work of dramatic power is, independently of theatrical aids, a sufficient basis for literary distinction. The unacted dramas of Byron and others, have as deeply penetrated the circle of the educated and intelligent, as if they had attained the ultimate and gratifying result of theatrical representation.
Kavikarņapura attempts to delineate the life of a speculative philosopher--of one whose sole aim was to abstract himself from all carnal enjoyments and to pass a life of pure spiritualityof an antipode of Falstaff. Shakspeare paints the latter as a strong active intellect, lost in sensuality, and embodied in gross and corpulent fleshiness—"a huge mass of animal enjoyment and corporeal appetite;" while the sketch of the former is that of quiet spiritual being enthusiastically in love with his creator, and immersed in intellectual ecstasy, whose abstraction from all animal pleasures gives to the emaciated remnant of his body an airy lightness, and makes it seem more a shadow than a reality. The Dramatis Persone of the play are :
MEN, Chaitanya.-Saint of Nuddea. Adwaitya.--An early associate and friend of the former. Sanátana, 1 Ministers of Hossein Shah, king of Bengal, Rupa. So Pratáparudra.–King of Cuttack. Sárvabhoma.--His Pandita. Chandanes'wara.--Son of the above. Rámánanda.--A Káëstha of Púrí.
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