Essay name: Gita-govinda of Jayadeva (comparative study)
Author:
Manisha Misra
Affiliation: Utkal University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay contains an English study of the Gita-Govinda by Jayadeva and the “Kishore Chandrananda Champu� by Kabisurya Baladev. The Gitagovinda is a Sanskrit Kavya poem of 12th century composed by Jayadeva whereas The “Kishore Chandrananda Champu� was written in the 18th century and was intended for a connection between the medieval poetry and modern literature.
Chapter 4 - The Background and Plot content of Kisora Chandrananda Champu
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time, Mahākāvyas and Gadyakāvyas were being developed on their lines. The campū-authors picked up their styles and amalgamated them. It is not possible to say when exactly this must have taken place. It is not necessary to assume for this, the period posterior to Bāṇa, for prose romance did exist long before him. Even Patanjali (2nd Century B.C) mentions in his Mahābhāsya, Ākhyāyikās like the Vāsavadattā, the Sumanottarā, the Bhaimarathi and Paṇīni is credited with the composition of the Mahākavyas like Jämbavatipariṇaya and Pātālavijaya. If we say that Bāṇa was referring to the Vāsavadattā mentioned by Patanjali and that it was written in the campū style, then Sanskrit campū date from a period much earlier than 2nd Cent. B.C. Many works in Sanskrit have been irrevocably lost. Campū available at present are only second rate works. Perhaps their predecessors also did not maintain a higher standard and sank into insignificance before the works of Bāṇa and Daṇḍīn.11 According to Ashok Dash- The superior part of that prose composition which comes under the mixed poem and includes in the audible poetry is the Campū poem. All the definitions and explanations of campū are present in the external outline of that poem. No scholar has given stress on the identification of the emetic definition of campū. So to define a campū, the story, size and characters are not important, only the style of writing is taken for consideration. 12 11. Despande, C.R., Studies in campū literature, p.67
12. Dash, Ashok, Kahita nuhai bhāratīre (Odia), p.86
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