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Kalidasa Raghuvamsham

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Aranya Kanda - Forest Treck

Book III : Aranya Kanda - Forest TreckChapter [Sarga] 1Verses converted to UTF-8, Sep, 093IntroductionRama, Seetha, and Lakshmana enter the great forest called Dandaka Forest and adore the eminent sages, who are in penance and hermitages in that forest. This canto is named as Aranya Kanda not just to show that Rama roved over just forests. The forests, as per Indian tradition, are the treasure houses of knowledge, and they are the ultimate in Vedic culture.Thus, until Ayodhya Kanda Rama&39;s exile is in aaryavarta , the place of noblemen, from River Ganges to Greece.

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Shrikrishna

shrI kRiShNa karNAmRitam - is NOTHING to someone who cannot bask in the glories of childhood, toddlerhood or boyhood of any prodigy, whether it is krishna or christ - for a child is NOTHING but a god.
shrI kRiShNa karNAmRitam
This song is a madhura kAvyam - a yummy among Sanskrit poems,

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Nataraja Symbolism

Nataraja is the Cosmic Dancer. Nothing remains static in dance, or to that matter of fact, in any performing art. That dynamsm is identifiable with naTana, not exactly playuacting, but 'doing something' 'dynamism' is metophorically termed as naTana, or for an easy identification, 'dance' of shiva, and this dynamism is the manifestation of the entire universe.

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Ritusamhaaram

Ritusamhaaram... or Ritusamharam 0r Ritusamhara as in a misspelt Itrans, but it is The Medley of Seasons or The Garland of Seasons. around the deity of Nature called year. It is not annihilation of seasons according to the wording - samhaara- but, if a long vowel A is substituted in the word samAhAra, then it is an assimilation of seasons Ritu - samAhAram. These six seasons are the makeup material for the presiding deity of Nature, namely shiva-pArvati , the Five-faced God shiva, whose five faces symbolise the five subtle elements of creation.
mahA kAvya
Summer, the terrible

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Harivamsa

Text and translation of Harivamsha online (on-going project)
Text follows that edited by Pandit Ramachandrashastri Kinjawadekar and published by the Chitrashala Press in 1936.
Text in itrans prepared by K.S. Ramachandran and Gilles Schaufelberger.
English Translation of Harivamsha Parva by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao.

The hundred shloka Bharata Savitri (Supplement to Harivamsa)
Text in itrans prepared by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao from the Telugu version presented by shrI jannAbhaTla vIreshvara shAstry.

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GitaGovindam

Sriradha --- is a maha bhava - 'an ecstatic concept about an exquisite beauty...' and she is the cynosure of this mini-epic gita govindam or Gita Govinda of Jayadeva. This work Gita Govindam is a lyrical dance-drama, plussed with the then romantics, poetic aesthetics and what not with a theme of vipralambha sringara - anguish in separation and joy in uniting of divine couple rādha and Krishna.

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RaghuvaMsham Intro

raghuvamsham has a place next only to vAlmIki rAmAyaNa in Sanskrit literature. It is “an expression in a delightful form and melodious language of the best thoughts and noblest emotions which the spectacle of life awakens in the finest souls...” so say Jagannatha Pandit and Vidyaanatha. It has a special merit of “subordinating form to matter, his poems set the sentimental chords into vibrations...” so says Krishnarao Mahadeva Joglekar, who translated this poem into English as early as in 1916, a publication of Nirnaya-Sagara Press.

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