Citrakavya : The Wonder Poetry – An Interview with Dr Shankar Rajaraman

[Nagaraj Paturi]

“An “aha” moment in Citrakāvya will go a long way in sustaining interest in Sanskrit” – Dr Shankar Rajaraman

Dr Shankar Rajaraman will be speaking at an event organised jointly by the Center for Soft Power, Indic Academy and Heritage Trust ‘Uncovering the Layers of History and Kavya’ on August 31 in Bangalore

Psychiatrist and Sanskrit poet Dr Shankar Rajaraman likens Citrakāvya or Sankrit ‘wonder poetry’ to tightrope-walking. First, there is the constraint of having to walk in the extremely narrow space provided by the rope that is tied at some precarious height. Second, when the rope-walker makes it to the end, the spectators are jubilant.

Recently honoured with the Presidential Award ‘Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman’ for his outstanding contribution to the field of Sanskrit language and literature, Devīdānavīyam and Citranaiṣadham are two of his Citrakāvya-based works.

Read more at

http://www.indictoday.com/interviews/citrakavya-the-wonder-poetry-an-interview-with-dr-shankar-rajaraman/

[Nagaraj Paturi]

There is a huge amount of Chitrakaavyas /Chitrakavitva in Telugu. This must be true with many regional Indian languages. 

Garbha and bandha kavitva are the sub-varieties of Chitra Kaavya

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Nagaraj Paturi

 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Director,  Inter-Gurukula-University Centre for Indic Knowledge Systems. 

BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

 

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )

 

 

 

[Ramaratnam S.]

Yes there a number of Citrakavyas and Chitra-Chatuslokas in Tamil also. There was one Kalamegha Pulavar who was an expert in that. A Chennai based gentleman has  written a book on Sanskrit Chitrakavyas and it was published by Motilal Banarsidas. I  had the pleasure of helping him. He has acknowledged it in the first line of the preface in his book.

Dr.Ramaratnam

Vice Chancellor,

Jagadguru Kripalu University.

Odisha

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[Shashi Joshi]

Great!!
But how come the post or the article doesn't mention at what event? At what venue?

Or is that to create an extra level of chitra-suspense :)

Pray, do tell us the venue and other details to attend, specially since I am in Bangalore.

Thanks,

~ Shashi

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:58 AM Nagaraj Paturi <nagara...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Irene Galstian]

It would be lovely to hear/watch a recording of this interview. 

Irene

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

Sri Shashi Joshi-ji,

Here is the flyer

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[Shashi Joshi]

🙏🙏

Thanks,
Shashi

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[Mohana Rao]

I have deep interest in chitrakavitva, particularly in Telugu. In this pursuit I collected lot of books and articles from various sources and in several languages. 

Coming to a point made by SrI Nagaraj Paturi, bandha kavitva is present in other languages too. Somehow, garbha kavutva seems to be practiced most in Telugu than in any other language. I have not come across garbha kavitva in other languages. In a way, it is possible in Tamil as their viruttams are basically what we call jAti. In that sense several Sanskrit metres can be embedded in their viruttams. For example mattakOkila (mallika in Kannada and Malayalam and charchari in sanskrit) is present in tEvAram! A Tamil-Sanskrit scholar, I forget his name, has done some work and also recorded some audios in this regard. I tried to give a few varieties of other metres in tamil veNbA. But in Telugu, the possibilities have been endless. In fact, gaNapavarapu vEnkaTakavi's SrI prabandharAja vEnkaTESvara vijayavilAsamu is considered to be an encyclopedia in chitrakavitva. I wrote some computer algorithms too in this regard. 

J K  Mohana  Rao

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