Priyamvada : companion of Shakuṇtalā in Kālidāsa’s Abhijñāna Śākuntalam.
... love cannot live by heavenly food alone. But, as we have said, Sethna has for his ideal a later Sri Aurobindo, he has left behind Sri Aurobindo's early reponses to the love of Urvasie and Priyamvada. In Altar and flame - although the poet calls his products "mundane" in an interview with the present writer - there is already a maturer sight into the mystery of love. With the process... indicates the great process going on inside the poet. Sri Aurobindo was not wrong when he named the young Parsi from Bombay Amal Kiran. Who is Sethna's dream lady? It cannot be an Urvasie or a Priyamvada. It must be the daughter of Savitr (Savitr means the Creator). A woman, white-veiled, crowned with olive, came — Under the shade of her green mantle, all Her body clothed ...
... Urvasie Pururavas struck by the shaft of immortal love, denied fulfilment by the power of the gods, at last gains his immortal love on the heights of Heaven. In Love and Death Ruru recovers Priyamvada from the dark nether regions of Death by the power of the charm of the supreme Mother and that of the God of Love. In both of these poems the immortality and eternity of Love are affirmed. It is ...
... In Urvaśī, Pururavas struck by the shaft of immortal love, denied fulfilment by the power of the gods, at last gains his immortal love on the heights of Heaven. In Love and Death Rum recovers Priyamvada from the dark nether regions of Death by the power of the charm of the supreme Mother and that of the God of Love. In both of these poems the immortality and eternity of Love is affirmed. It is in ...
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