Book Title: Jayantika
Author(s): Bakulbhushan Mahakavi
Publisher: Human Resource Development Government of India

View full book text
Previous | Next

Page 27
________________ xxi These are the lamentations of the Cowherd boy who was about to be killed by the butcher. Good many such passages that are very instructive are introduced in this work. Thus the two aims of poetic compositions viz. Ananda (delight) and Upadesha (instruction) are served by this Prose-romance well Normally a foreword records only the appreciation of the work. It does not give a narration of the contents. But in this case appreciation without narration would not highlight the depth of the contribution of the poet fully. Therefore, a narration of the main story is also attempted above. This will also help to get the threads of the story which is immersed in highly scholastic language and difficult to follow easily because of its winding nature. It may not be out of place to quote from the appreciation of a senior Scholar Sri Govinda Ramanuja Yogindra here. कचित्पदगभीरतां कच पदार्थगम्भीरतां कचिन्नवनवाड्यतां नवरसात्मतां च कचित् । कचिजगदुदंततां कचिदपूर्वदृष्टांततां विलोक्य विवशं मनो भ्रमति गद्यकोशे मम ।। IV As stated above, my admiration for this poet is not merely for the Prose-romance Jayantikā narrated above but for his entire literary output. Therefore, I cannot resist the temptation of including a few remarks about his other works in this foreword. As stated in one of my articles referred to in the beginning of this foreword his compositions are in the six areas of Drama, Mahakavya, Prose Romance, Champu, Lyrics and Stotra. The total number of his works

Loading...

Page Navigation
1 ... 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254