Some more Sanskrit Poems

[Madhav M Deshpande]

I have attached some more Sanskrit poems of mine.  This includes my partial Sanskrit rendering of the famous Hindi poem Madhushala by Harivanshrai Bachchan, and a Marathi poem "Love Song of the Earth".  Some comic verses written during a 1981 conference, and a few stray verses written in Ann Arbor.  Some day, l I hope to collect all my Sanskrit poems and publish them as a collection.  

Thanks for your appreciation,

Madhav Deshpande

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

[Ganesh R]

Dear scholar friends,

I profusely  thank Prof. Deshpande for sharing  his poems  that were composed earlier. I also personally thank him for confirming my long held view that the western academic world,  perusing the Indic studies, is least bothered about using the language SamskRtaM directly for any creative or critical purpose. This should be a substantial evidence to show that our (most of the Indian Sanskritists, who are traditionally trained in spite of their exposure to the western research methodology) approach to Indian studies and classical languages like Sanskrit is quite different from that of the west. 

I have discussed this issue in some detail in my D.Litt thesis too. Here I wish to bring it to your kind notice, a portion of the personal letter of Prof. DHH Ingalls, that was written to my uncle Dr. K S Nagarajan, a Sanskrit poet and researcher.

".........You are a finer Sanskritist than any one we have...... for you use the language as it was intended to be used as an instrument for revealing its beauty to the world such as artist uses his brush; whereas I am more like a mechanic fascinated with it but still fairly clumsy at handling a wonderful machine..."

regards

ganesh

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[Madhav Deshpande]

Thank you Ganesh-ji for sharing the quote from Professor Ingalls' letter to your father.  It captures the abilities of most western scholars.  There are stray Sanskrit verses composed by some western Sanskritists, and I remember to have seen a collection of such verses.  Will post it if I can find it.  But there are some exceptions to this norm, and I would include my Guruji, Professor George Cardona, among the exceptions.  Besides being trained at Yale by stalwarts like Paul Thieme, Cardona spent time in India studying intensively with Pade Shastri in Baroda and Pandit Raghunath Sharma near Banaras, and can deliver a lecture in fluent Shastric Sanskrit.  Professor Ingalls himself studied for a short time with young S.D. Joshi in Pune in the medium of Sanskrit, before S.D. Joshi went to Harvard to study under Ingalls.  

Madhav Deshpande

[Suhas Mahesh]

Dear Prof. Deshpande, 

Thank you for sharing your verses. I enjoyed reading them. I suppose you must be referring to Satyavrat Shastri's 'Sanskrit Writings of European Scholars'. It would be great if you could share some excerpts from it if you have the book.

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thank you, Shri Suhas Mahesh.  Yes, I was thinking of Satya Vrat Shastri's 2012 book "Sanskrit writings of European scholars / Satya Vrat Shastri".  My university library does have a copy of this publication, though I do not have a digital copy to share.  Should be available in libraries in India, as it is a relatively recent publication.

Madhav Deshpande

[Ganesh R]

Thank you sri. Deshpande ji, as my friend Suhas mentioned,  I have seen that book. Couldn't go through completely. I have seen some of the earlier writings too. What all I have seen, mostly  meets the demand of a decent grammar. But could never strike and gold (suvarNam)  there :)

I shall have the joy of reading your poems and share my feelings soon.

Regards

Ganesh