Vikramaditya Ka Shaurya

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Poet Geetanjali's veer chand narrative poem on Chandragupta II's wars against the Shakas — the campaign that made him Vikramaditya.

Overview

The title Vikramaditya — Sun of Valour — was not inherited by Chandragupta II. It was earned, on the battlefield, in the wars against the Shaka invaders that marked the opening of his reign. That campaign is the least celebrated chapter of one of India's most celebrated rulers, overshadowed by the literary and artistic glories of the court he later presided over: the Navaratnas, the compositions that gave rise to Vikram aur Betaal and Singhasan Battisi.

Poet Geetanjali takes that neglected military history and renders it in veer chand — the metre traditionally reserved for heroic verse — as a khand kavya, a sectional narrative poem. The choice of form is deliberate: it anchors the story in the classical tradition of Sanskrit and Hindi heroic poetry while making the events vivid and immediate. The poem follows Chandragupta from the onset of the Shaka conflict to the moment his subjects gave him the name that history remembers.

For readers of Hindi poetry and anyone drawn to the Gupta period, this is a rare literary treatment of a pivotal episode that standard histories pass over quickly.

:किताब के बारे में: चंद्रगुप्त 'विक्रमादित्य के नाम से हमारे पाठकगण अनभिज्ञ नहीं। उनका शासनकाल गुप्तवंश के स्वर्णिम युग के शिखर पर था। उनकी सभा के नवरन विद्वानों ने ही उनकी प्रशंसा में 'विक्रम और वेताल' व 'सिंहासन बतीसी' जैसी लोकप्रिय साहित्यिक रचनायें लिखकर उनके बुद्धि व बल का गुणगान किया। किंतु शक आक्रमणकारियों के विरुद्ध जो युद्ध उनके शासकीय जीवन का प्रारंभप्रमाणित हुआ, उसकी चर्चा अधिक नहीं पाई जाती। ओज-तेज और रोमांच से भरपूर इस घटनाक्रम को कवयित्री गीतांजलि ने वीर छंद के विधान में संयोजित करके खंड-काव्य के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया है। इस पुस्तक का लक्ष्य है सम्राट चंद्रगुप्त के उस अतुल शौर्य का परिदर्शन करना, जो प्रजा द्वारा उनको 'विक्रमादित्य' की उपाधि दिए जाने का कारण बना।

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Geetanjali is an upcoming author, artist and poet. Reading and writing poetry has been her passion from the earliest days of her youth. All throughout her school and college years, she contributed poems, stories and articles to newspapers and magazines Her lifelong relationship with the divine and her aspiration to share it with her children has since driven her to write and illustrate the known and unknown stories from the ancient indian epics in simple everyday poetry. Her first book published earlier this year consists of 108 short Hindi poems summarizing the saga of Ramayana. She hopes that her efforts will resonate with the masses and help to spread and sustain our sacred scriptures in their purest form.

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