Question

THE EXPLANATION OF THE POEM RAGHUMAVSA ​

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The poem opens with the customary salutation to Shiva-Parvati, the favourite divinity of Kaldasa. After the briefest allusion to the origin of the Solar race the poet gives us an aoount of Dilipa the great-great-grand father of Rama. The description of his virtues and moral rectitude indicate to us Kalidasa's ideal of an aristocrat. The nucleus of the story of'the first canto is the childless condition of the king. He decides upon going to his family priest--the sage Vasislltha - and consuultil1g him as to the cause of Destiny being against him in this particular. Putting his hereditary amd faithful ministers in charge of the kingdom he journeys with his queen, Sudakshina, to the hermitage. The description of the route, the trees on the road-side, the joltngs of the car in tho ruts etc., are highly graphical and can only be appreciated by those who have had occasions to travel in this primitive manner and not by those used to flying in railway trains.. The royal pair reaches the hermitage in the evening

where it is warmly welcomed and assigned a hut for the night's rest with a few deer-skins for lbeds. Vasishta discloses to them the real cause of their childless condition and directs them to propitiate the celestial cow Nandinf who alone, he says, has the power to fulfil the yearning desire of nleir heart. - Kishanrao Madhavarao Joglekar. - KMJ