May 2018

Duryodhana’s spies brought news that Draupadī was married off to the Pāṇḍavas; the archer who bent the bow, strung it, and shot the target was none other than Arjuna; the one who lifted and whirled Śalya, uprooted trees, and vanquished everyone in combat without himself losing his composure was Bhīma. The kings who had assumed that the Pāṇḍavas had perished in the fire that burnt down house of lac were overjoyed when they heard about the escape...
We know that in December 1919, the Mysore People’s Convention, a citizens’ initiative, met in Bangalore. Among the members who came to attend the meeting, around seven or eight of them stayed in the house of sub-judge Lakshminarayanappa, who lived on Hardinge Road, Shankarapuram. This crowd included M Venkatakrishnayya from Mysore, Srinivasaraya, Vasudevaraya, and Narasingaraya from Chikkamagalur, along with a few others. After the proceedings...
In 1922, the Kannaḍa Sāhitya Sammeḻana[1] was held at Davanagere. That year, Mysore’s Vṛddha Pitāmaha[2] Sri. M. Venkatakrishnayya presided over the conference. The service he rendered to the Mysore region at large and to Kannada language and literature is widely known. Sixty to seventy years of his ceaseless, multidimensional service to society, is remembered as a virtuous life[3] in our state’s history. Nobody had imagined that there could be...
ಯತ್ಸಾರಸ್ವತರಸಸಿದ್ಧ ಏವ ಶುದ್ಧಃ ಸರ್ವೋऽದ್ಧಾ ವಿಲಸತಿ ವಾಚ್ಯವಾಚಕಾತ್ಮಾ | ಕಾಶ್ಮೀರೀ ಜಯತಿ ಜಗದ್ಧಿತಾವತಾರಃ ಸ ಶ್ರೀಮಾನಭಿನವಗುಪ್ತದೇಶಿಕೇಂದ್ರಃ || —ಗುರುನಾಥಪರಾಮರ್ಶಃ ಈ ಮುನ್ನವೇ ನಾವು “ಧ್ವನ್ಯಾಲೋಕಲೋಚನ”ದ ಕೆಲವೊಂದು ವೈಶಿಷ್ಟ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಗಮನಿಸುವಾಗ “ಅಭಿನವಭಾರತಿ” ಅಥವಾ “ನಾಟ್ಯವೇದವಿವೃತಿ”ಯ ಕೇಂದ್ರಭೂತಮಹತ್ತ್ವವನ್ನೂ ಪರಾಮರ್ಶಿಸಿದ ಕಾರಣ ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕೆ ನೇರವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರವೇಶಿಸಬಹುದು. ಭರತಮುನಿಯ “ನಾಟ್ಯಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ”ಕ್ಕೆ ಅವೆಷ್ಟೋ ವ್ಯಾಖ್ಯಾನಗಳು ಇದ್ದುವಾದರೂ ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಉಳಿದಿರುವುದು ಅಭಿನವಗುಪ್ತನ ವಿವೃತಿಯೊಂದೇ. ಇದು ಮೂಲಗ್ರಂಥದ...