Vidyakara Poetry Analysis

Vidyakara Poetry
The book Sanskrit Poetry: from Vidyakara’s “Treasury” consist of short poems (one stanza each). This essay will focus on two works: number 327 and 1129 from sections 14 Kama and 34 Breezes respectively. Both poems have romantic mood and focus one love, but describe this topic in slightly different ways
KAMA
The first work honors the god of physical love Kama. It also glorifies the behavior and actions of the supernatural being. Specifically, it mentions Kama’s meeting with Siva, when the god of love was incinerate and achieved the name Bodiless. The poem shows this confrontation did not break Kama’s spirit, and he “overcame the god of gods” (“Sanskrit Poetry” 119). It is possible to refer the works’ emotional state to the erotic

The last phrase looks strange because these beings have opposite traits. The coolness is one of the basic features of the Moon, according to poetic conventions in the Sanskrit literature. Specifically, it can help to suppress the erotic desire that is roused by Kama. There are two possible explanations for this suggestion: the god of love and the Moon create a well-balanced union that help people to show a required level of desire; or Kama acts primarily during nights, so the Moon cannot not to accompany him. The desire is traditionally presented by flowered arrows that Kama shoots with his flowered bow at everyone, including the higher ranked

It refers to the romantic Rasa, like the first work. The wind here plays two roles. First author’s suggestion refers to the more real behavior of the breeze as a “spring bringer” and a pollinator: “scatters the pollen of crowded jasmine” (“Sanskrit Poetry” 230). The second suggestion, that compares the wind with the lover, is a classic decision for the Sanskrit literature. The breeze was presented as an ordinary womanizer or an errant husband who leaves his wife (south) to visit the mistress (north).
The breeze plays in hair “of the women of Gujerat” that were already disheveled by their lovers. These lines can be a sign the author wanted to add a repellent Rasa or the feeling of disgust to the poem. Women already were with someone and this fact is highlighted by the destruction of their hairdresses; and they go to another lover that is represented by the breeze. However, these lines can be treated like that because of cultural differences, and suggestions at the polygamy were a part of the creation of the romantic mood.
The spring is connected with love “awakening” in many cultures. The India was not an exception. The spring breeze brings warmth both for plants and people; it helps to pollinate the first and arouses desire in bodies of the second. The wind can be treated as an image of lover or an ordinary natural phenomenon that arouses passion with the aid of pleasant smells,