Nepali Visions, Nepali Dreams: The Poetry of Laxmiprasad Devkota. By David Rubin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 159 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography. $17.50 (cloth).

Nathan, Leonard

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“…The force has driven him to the journey of massive creativity. Likewise, Nathan (1981) defines Devkota as an unwitting surrealist because of his indifference to the repetition of work in the same line (p. 839). Devkota could move along with the consciousness of the time, keeping humanism at the center.…”

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A Rasa Reading of Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Magh

Lamichhane¹

2020

Jnl. NELTA Gandaki

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The study examines how the persona perpetually searches tranquility in the poem entitled “Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Magh” by Laxmi Prasad Devkota. For the study, I have entered into rasa reading to explore the sovereignty of śānta rasa, which is pervasively dominant in the poem. As the nature of śānta rasa, all emotions merge out of śānta and finally in the end, submerge into it. Primarily, the determinant, consequent, and transitory emotions are identified and further analyzed to illustrate how they conjoin. Through the discussion, it appears that any sensitive readers of the poem could identify themselves to the persona’s emotion as one involves in prayer. It stands as the devotion and celebration of the God and nature in the month of Magh; that represents creation and clarity. It happens there suspending ‘I’, surpassing ego, and searching metamorphosis of the lustrous desires, fabric beauty, and worldly pain for overcoming both life and death enjoying the elixir of the Sun and learning the lesson from the God. As a result, the persona believes in the dying down of the worldly dream to achieve delight and disillusionment eliminating shiny lacy veils entrapping humanity. Thus, the poem searches tranquility as a state of pure peace relishing utmost and absolute aesthetic pleasure, sama. Finally, it expands the scope of the Eastern aesthetics, especially unfolding and widening the area of śānta rasa, which is usually overlooked even in the Eastern literature.

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A Rasa Reading of Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Magh

Lamichhane¹

2020

Jnl. NELTA Gandaki

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Nepali Visions, Nepali Dreams: The Poetry of Laxmiprasad Devkota. By David Rubin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 159 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography. $17.50 (cloth).

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A Rasa Reading of Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Magh

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