September 2021

ನಾವಿನ್ನು “ಶಿವಲೀಲಾರ್ಣವ”ದತ್ತ ತಿರುಗಬಹುದು. ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ ನೀಲಕಂಠದೀಕ್ಷಿತನ ವ್ಯಾಪಕವಾದ ಕಾವ್ಯಚಿಂತನೆ ಕಂಡುಬರುತ್ತದೆ. ಮೊದಲಿಗೇ ಕವಿಯು ಧ್ವನಿಯ ಮಹತ್ತ್ವವನ್ನು ಸಾರುತ್ತಾನೆ: ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವಿದ್ಯಾಜಯಘಂಟಯೈವ             ಸಂವೇದಯಂತೇ ಕವಯೋ ಯಶಾಂಸಿ | ಯಥಾ ಯಥಾಸ್ಯಾಂ ಧ್ವನಿರುಜ್ಜಿಹೀತೇ             ತಥಾ ತಥಾ ಸಾರ್ಹತಿ ಮೂಲ್ಯಭೇದಾನ್ || (೧.೮) ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವಿದ್ಯೆಯೆಂಬ ಜಯಘಂಟಿಕೆಯಿಂದಲೇ ಕವಿಗಳು ಕೀರ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಗಳಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಎಷ್ಟರ ಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಧ್ವನಿಯು ಹೊಮ್ಮುವುದೋ ಅಷ್ಟರ ಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಅದರ ಬೆಲೆ ನಿಗದಿಯಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಆನಂದವರ್ಧನನ ಬಳಿಕ...
  चलत्कर्णानिलोद्धूत सिन्धूरारुणिताम्बरः। जयत्यकालेऽपि सृजन् सन्धामिव गजाननः॥   Victory to Gajānana, who reddens the sky with sindhūra scattered by the wind from the constant flapping of his ears, creating a sense of sunset even when it’s not the hour of dusk!   1. One day when Naravāhanadatta was in his father's assembly hall, a divine personage descended from the sky and introduced himself as Vajraprabha, a king of the vidyādharas,...
D.V. Gundappa
Upon completing my first year of high school (Fourth Form) at Mysore, I moved to Kolar for the second year (Fifth Form). After initial hardships in matters of boarding and lodging, I was able to set up boarding arrangement at one Venkataramayya’s residence, which was made possible by Ramadasappa’s munificence. Ramadasappa and Venkataramayya were friends. While they were not related to one another, they belonged to the same community (Baḍaganāḍu...
“There is a dire need for the rejuvenation of connoisseurship. The number of connoisseurs in the society must increase. The tastes and opinions of people need to be more cultured.” Rāḻḻapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma had expressed this concern during his presidential speech at the Āndhra Nāṭaka Kalāpariṣat at Nellore in 1938. To this day, after the passage of so many decades, his opinion is relevant, perhaps even more so. In one of his lectures (on...