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In accordance with the Oxford Dictionary the which means of the phrase Satire is, “The usage of humor, irony, exaggeration or vices, notably within the context of latest politics and different topical points.
We all know very properly that Benjamin Franklin was the primary to deliver out cartoons to criticize the social happenings constructively. However in literature only a few such poems or verses can be found in many of the languages.
However in Sanskrit literature we discover a whole bunch of satiric verses within the nice works of poets for the previous many centuries.
Take the case of son-in-law. Here’s a verse!
Extra oft than not he is crooked-true And ever and anon antagonistic too; In Virgin’s home he all the time stands And austere worship ever calls for, Mates! What needs to be this object Pshaw! A planet tenth, the son-in-law (Sanskrit verse translated by Dr Velluri Subba Rao).
Within the above verse the virgin’s home has two meanings. One is the home of the Virgin whom the son-in-law marries. The second which means is the Virgin’s home signifies the Virgo of the Zodiac. And rightly the son-in-law is known as because the tenth planet. Everyone usually fearfully worship the 9 planets particularly Solar, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Kethu. Now we’ve got to fearfully respect the tenth planet additionally, the son-in-law.
The poet drives his level in a satire method right here.
We now have one complete work of the nice poet Nilakantha Dikshita titled KaliVidambana containing 100 satiric verses in Sanskrit.
Nilakantha Dikshita lived within the seventeenth century. He was the son of Narayana Dikshitha and grandson of Accan Dikshita II, brother of the well-known poet Appaya Dikshita. He moved to the temple metropolis Madurai and the nice king Thirumalai Nayaka was interested in him. He was the Prime Minister to this nice king. He was a prolific author. As many as eighteen works are identified to have been composed by him.
In Kalividambana we might benefit from the satiric verses on varied social characters within the household and out of doors, in addition to quacks, medical doctors, poetasters, astrologers and many others.
Adverting to the astrologers Nilakantha says that they’re very intelligent in decoding or forecasting issues. If a person asks concerning the intercourse of the long run baby, the astrologer ought to reply {that a} son could be born: for a girl, the reply needs to be in favor of a daughter. That is the clue for the astrologer’s success.
If one asks about one’s span of life, the reply needs to be that one would stay for lengthy. By such a reply, those that are alive will naturally be happy. Even when the individual involved dies, there is no such thing as a hurt as a result of those that are useless won’t ever ask the astrologer as to why prediction went improper.
Relating to the collectors, he says that even the God of demise waits for the time of demise to demand the lifetime of individuals; however there is no such thing as a time-limit no matter for the creditor to demand again the debt owed to him.
Coming to poets, with a slight dig on the indiscriminate descriptions of poets, he says that of their descriptions even blind males develop into lotus-eyed, misers develop into Kalpa timber (want full-filling timber) and even cowards develop into Vikramadidtyas (the king Vikramaditya is taken into account to be the best Heroic King in Indian historical past).
It’s certainly an incredible pleasure to learn all of the hundred verses of Nilakantha. As soon as we come by means of such verses we are going to know that the satire will not be new to Indian literature. It’s as previous as that of Sanskrit language.
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Source by Santhanam Nagarajan