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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) April 1936

1936

The stories are told in the words of the Poets themselves; in the case of the Ramayana it the poet Valmiki that is speaking and in the case of the iVlahabharata it is the sage Vyasa. [...] It attempted to take up the ordinary life of man and of the community and the life of human -desire and aim and interest and ordered rule and custom and to intepret and formulate it in the same complete and decisive manner. [...] Another part of the literature is devoted to the bringing of something of the essence of the old culture into the popular tongues through new poetic versions of the story of the Mahabharats and the Ramayana or in romantic narrative founded on the ancient legends; and here again we have work of the very greatest genius as well as much of a lesser but still high order. [...] AU this poetfy the epic and the romance the didactic poem of which Remiss and the famous Kurral of Tiruvallavar are the chief representatives and the philosophic and devotional lyrics ernot the creation or meant for the appreciation of a cultivated class but with few exceptions the expression of a popular culture. [...] The Ramyana of Tulsidas the songs of Rampra sad and of the Bauls the wandering Vaisbnawi devotees the poetry of Ramdaa and Tukaram„ the sentences of Tiruvallavar and the poetess Avvai and the inspired lyrics of the southern saints and Alwars were known to all classes and their thought or lbeir emotion entered deeply into the life of the people.
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Pages
166
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-viii unknown view
Frontmatter
1-i unknown view
The Greatness of Indian Literature
1-14 Aurobindo view
Principles Underlying Health Education
15-26 C.E. Turner view
Progress as a Social Reality
27-41 Benoykumar Sarkar view
Anthropomorphism and Mysticism in Religion
42-48 Nibaranchandra Dasgupta view
Towards an Indian Lingua Franca
49-62 M. Hamidullah view
Publication of Debates of the Indian Legislative Assembly
63-80 Tripurari Chakravarti view
The Indian Cotton Industry and its Claim to Protection
81-96 Bhujanga Mukherjee view
Rudyard Kipling
97-106 Mohinimohan Bhattacherje view
Arts Letters and Sciences
107-113 unknown view
At Home and Abroad
114-117 unknown view
News and Views
118-121 Atulananda Chakrabarti view
Miscellany
122-127 Benoykumar Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
128-130 unknown view
Ourselves
131-135 unknown view
Backmatter
i-18 unknown view

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