Bhavabhuti : (c.700), dramatist, poet & author of three of the best extant dramas, Vīra-Charita, Uttara Rāma-Charita, & Mālati Mādhava. These plays, noted for their suspense & vivid characterisation, rival the outstanding plays of Kālidāsa. Bhavabhuti was the court-poet of King Yashovarman of Kanauj.
... that of poetry. Here is a clear proof. When we speak of genuine poetry, we hardly think of the Veda-Upanishad-Gita. To serve our purpose we immediately resort to the works of Valmiki, Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti. Yet, as a matter of fact, the Gita, the Upanishads and the Vedas can easily stand on the same footing with the greatest poetry. However natural or mundane may be the delight in poetic creation,... case he is nothing more than a poet. When the poet is fully conscious of himself as a poet and nothing more, he rarely forgets the excellence of his creation. That is why with a heart full of pride Bhavabhuti could declare: "Whatever may be their knowledge, my efforts are not for those who look down upon me. I believe I have some equals on earth, and if not I will have some from the womb of future ...
... truth and power. On the other side the Bengali critics, men of no mean literary taste and perception though inferior in pure verbal scholarship, are agreed in regarding the characters of Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti as beautiful and energetic creations, not less deserving of study than the personalities of Elizabethan drama. Page 188 This contradiction, violent as it is, is not difficult to understand ...
... incidents evidencing a moved delight in the painted form and beauty of colour and the appeal both to the decorative sense and to the aesthetic emotion occur not only in the later poetry of Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti and other classical dramatists, but in the early popular drama of Bhasa and earlier still in the epics and in the sacred books of the Buddhists. The absence of any actual creations of this earlier ...
... constant grace and fineness of work in the best period, a plainer and more direct but still fine vigour in Bhasa and the writers who prolong him, a breath of largeness and power in the dramas of Bhavabhuti, a high and consummate beauty in the perfection of Kalidasa. This drama, this poetry, the prose romances crowded with descriptive detail, monographs like Bana's biography of Harsha or Jonaraja's ...
... blending of the Greek and Elizabethan, but Sri Aurobindo's poetry, epic in range, is almost entirely Greek. Sanskrit literature, the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti, may have opened a new world of vision and taste and supplied him with new subject-matter to transmute and make his own, but in flawless power and self-sufficiency, specially of the later and greater ...
... offering of love. Here is the self-poised serene joy of attainment, a feeling of fulfilment of the experience of beauty. Beauty acts spontaneously and without any self-regarding motive. Bhavabhuti describes it in one of his dramas : "Vikasati hi pataṅgasyodaye puṇdarīkam" "The Lotus blooms at sunrise," why? Because there is between them "āntarah kepi hetu" "some inner, ...
... pure offering of love. Here is the self-poised serene joy of attainment, a feeling of fulfilment of the experience of beauty. Beauty acts spontaneously and without any self-regarding motive. Bhavabhuti describes it in one of his dramas: " Vikasati hi patangasyodaye pundarikam" "The Lotus blooms at sunrise" why? Because there' is between them-"Antarah Kopi hetu"—"' some inner, mysterious ...
... 39.) The idea of receiving the inspired word, an intuitive truth expression, a revelation in the illumined mind has come down from the Veda and the Upanishads down to the classical period. Bhavabhuti, the famous dramatist, in the opening verses of Uttarr ā mcarit says, "We bow to the goddess of speech who is the Immortal art-expression of the Self", and then he proceeds, "In the case of ordinary ...
... ideas, emotions, imagination, sensation, feelings, desires, passions etc. No mental standards or values could be laid down for "revealed" creations: they were considered above all mental judgments. Bhavabhuti, the famous Sanskrit dramatist, describing the nature of overhead or revealed poetry says —"It is utterance at whose heels the meaning runs"— "Vācam arthonudhāvati"— i.e. it is inspired utterance ...
... they are visualised and the magnificent architecture of phrase with which they are presented, to Kalidasa alone among Sanskrit poets. Other poets, his successors or imitators, such as Bana or even Bhavabhuti, overload their description with words and details; they have often lavish colouring but never an equal power of form; their figures do not appear to stand out of the canvas and live. And though ...
... Europe. The people and the civilisation that count among their great works and their great names the Veda and the Upanishads, the mighty structures of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti and Bhartrihari and Jayadeva and the other rich creations of classical Indian drama and poetry and romance, the Dhammapada and the Jatakas, the Panchatantra, Tulsidas, Vidyapati and Chandidas and ...
... and to defend it bravely. But there is a greater courage, the Page 179 courage which is shown for the sake of others. Let me tell you the story of Madhava as it was recorded by Bhavabhuti. He is kneeling outside a temple and hears a cry of distress. He finds a way to enter and looks into the sanctuary of the goddess Chamunda. A victim is about to be slain in honour of this ...
... on Agastya. But as soon as his brother chanted the mantra, Agastya chanted some other mantra and thus prevented the sheep from. tearing open his stomach. (Laughter) Then there is the story in Bhavabhuti where Vasishtha ate a whole sheep in front of his disciples. The disciples exclaimed, "That fellow is eating the whole sheep!" SATYENDRA: They must have wondered at his digestive capacity. ...
... treasure-house of the Indian heritage. He read the Upanishads, the Gita, the Puranas, the two great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the poems of Bhartrihari, the dramas of Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti etc., Page 27 etc. Ancient India, the ageless India of spiritual culture and unwearied creative vitality, thus revealed herself to his wondering vision, and he discovered the ...
... Bbagavata 56,256 Page 493 Bharati, Subramania 376 Bhartrihari 45 Bhasa 48,376 Bhavabhuti 376 Bhave, Vinoba 25 Bhawani Mandir 27,28 Blake, William 310,311,333,424,462 Boehme.Jacob 20,333,361 Boodin, John Elof 435,439,448,457 ...
... In the year 1895 the first collection of Sri Aurobindo's poems, Songs to Myrtilla , was published "for private circulation". Sri Aurobindo used to read Homer, Dante, the Mahabharata, Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti, during this period. He instructed the Bombay firms Messrs Radhabai Atmaram Sagun and Messrs Thacker Spink & Co. to send him catalogues of new publications from which he would select books and order ...
... Mahabharata is often referred to as the fifth Veda. Together these two epics form a Book of Origins for much of the later literature in India, and classical dramatists like Bhasa, Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti as also poets of our own time like Subramania Bharati, Tagore and Sri Aurobindo have freely taken deep draughts from this veritable Ganga-Yamuna confluence of the great Indian epic tradition. ...
... "Bhasker Shashtri Joshi gave him lessons in Sanskrit and Gujarat." He did not learn Sanskrit from any one at Baroda. He read the Mahabharata by himself and also read works of Kalidasa and one drama of Bhavabhuti as well as the Ramayana. 4. It is stated that his patriotism got the religious colour by his contact with one Swami Hamsa. Swami Hamsa had nothing to do with his nationalism. He was a Hatha Yogi ...
... Sanskrit from one Bhasker Shashtri Joshi. In fact Sri Aurobindo began Sanskrit in England and continued his studies at Baroda where he read the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, works of Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti by himself. If he talked with anyone on the subject it was to get information and compare notes – not to learn the language. 3. He mentions Mohanpuri Goswami as one who gave Sri Aurobindo ...
... Hindu civilisation; its limitations. Qualities of verse diction. Similes. Description. Sentiment; pathos and eloquence. Relative merits of later & earlier cantos. Comparison of Kalidasa's pathos & Bhavabhuti's. Chapter V. The Cloud Messenger. Kalidasa's treatment of the Supernatural.. Substance of the poem.. Chastened style.. Perfection of the harmony.. moderation & restraint.. pathos & passion. Chapter ...
... 63. Sunday Morning. 64. Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry, pp. 7-8. 65. Maud, ii.82-3. 66. Letter to Nirodbaran (Mother India, June 1957, p. 3) 67. Cf. Bhavabhuti's Uttar ā romacarita: Laukik ā n ā m tu s ād bunam arth ā m v ā kanuvartate, rsinam punar ā dyanam v ā cam artkonu dh ā vati. 68. English Critical Essays, XX Century ...
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