Panchali Sapatham : “Draupadi’s Vow” by Subramania Bharati – an epic in two parts, respectively comprising two cantos of 204 verses & three cantos of 104 verses.
... story of a koel, a bull, a monkey, and the poet himself—and what had happened in their previous births. In fact, the period between 1910 to 1913 was Bharati's most creative period. He wrote Panchali Sapatham, Kannan Pattu, composed numerous devotional and patriotic songs during these years. He also made many translations from the Sanskrit into Tamil. The reason for this creative output is not ...
... method should be justified in the results so that the intellectual sceptic & critic in Mahasaraswati may be assured of the correctness of the instructions given. Bhasha. Bh's [Bharati's] Panchali Sapatham taken up; in the first verse yesterday only a few words could be understood without reference to the dictionary & no connected sense has been made out from the sum of the vocable. Today, in the ...
... As was his wont, no sooner did Sri Aurobindo begin learning Tamil than he started reading Bharati's poems. We find in his notes under the date of 31 December 1912: "Bhasa [language]. Bh's Panchali Sapatham 1 taken up; in the first verse yesterday only a few words could be understood without reference to the dictionary & no connected sense has been made out from the sum of the vocables. Today, in ...
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