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Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri (born 1965) is a poet residing in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She produced collections of Bengali poetry. She was awarded the Krittibas Puraskar in 1998 by the Krittibas Patrika. [1] She is also the recipient of Anita Sunil Kumar Basu Smriti Puraskar by Bangla Academy Kolkata (2006) and Sahitya Setu Puraskar 2007
To expiate the queen from her sinful act, King Yashodhara takes his mothers advice and decides to perform a symbolic sacrifice of a cock made of flour, to please the gods. But the cock comes to life and crows at its time of death. For committing the sin of violence, Yashodhara and his mother are reborn as animals.
However, in fact, Song Offerings anthologizes also English translation of poems from his drama Achalayatan and nine other previously published volumes of Tagore poetry. [2] The ten works, and the number of poems selected from each, are as follows: [3] Gitanjali - 69 poems (out of 157 poems in Song Offerings) Geetmalya - 17 poems; Naibadya - 16 ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Yashodhara Kaviyam is one of the five minor epic poems of Sangham literature. [1] [2]
It is a sub-category of Bengali literature in English translation. Bengali poetry, and for that matter Bengali literature, has been translated into many other languages. But starting from the 18th century it is English which has been chosen by most of the native and international translators.
Poems dealing with the subject also appear in Old Gujarati, Old Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada languages. [8] The motif of a high-ranking woman with a low-born paramour, who murders her husband, is a prominent theme in Yashas-tilaka. This motif occurs in several other Indian texts. [9]
Bengali poetry is a rich tradition of poetry in the Bengali language and has many different forms. Originating in Bengal , the history of Bengali poetry underwent three successive stages of development: poetry of the early age (like Charyapad ), the Medieval period and the age of modern poetry .
Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian and the only Indian to receive this honour. [1]