In what way does Chandrabati make her own thoughts and feelings knownin her narrative?
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Most of us are not familiar with Chandrabati and so, a good starting point would
be getting to know her. Chandrabati holds the honour of being the first ever
woman to re-write the Ramayana. She was born to Dij-Banshidas Bhattacharya
and Shulochona Das Bhattacharya in 1550 in the village of Patuyari, on the
banks of the Fulesshori River in Kishoreganj, East Bengal. Her father was a
prolific writer who composed the Manasa’s ballads.
Chandrabati wrote during an age when no one could even begin to imagine that
a woman could write and render religious texts in her own way and on her own
initiative. It was indeed revolutionary. Chandrabati’s life was quite extraordinary.
What brought her to writing was disillusionment in love: she immersed herself
in the written word which helped her survive her grief. She fell in love with her
childhood friend, Jayananda whom she dreamt of marrying. However, Jayananda
married someone else and this broke Chandrabati’s heart. She decided to never
marry, and devoted her life to serving Lord Shiva on the advice of her father. She
re-wrote the Ramayana from Sita’s point of view. However, Chandrabati’s
Ramayana could not be completed. In a dramatic twist of events, Jayananda
realised his folly and returned to Chandrabati who refused to accept him. Rejected
and repentant, Jayananda committed suicide by jumping into the River Fulesshori.
Chandrabati also ended her life by drowning in the same river. At the time of her
death in 1600, she was fifty years old. We are indebted to this lady who faced
odds in personal life and still gave us a rich legacy that continues to inspire
many.
It is rather sad that such an intellectual and progressive woman like Chandrabati
should be written off as a ballad writer, and her contribution as an outstanding
epic writer should not be recognised by critics. In patriarchy, critics found it
difficult to accommodate a woman-oriented adaptation of the Ramayana, which
was more secular than martial and jingoistic. Till recent times, Chandrabati
Ramayana remained a ‘silenced text’. It is rather stimulating to re-visit this ignored
text and see for ourselves how a woman thought that Sita felt, and how the social
and emotional world would be if a woman became its central subject.
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