The famous
argument that
parvatii paramaewarau mentioned in the first stanza of Raghuvamsam of
Kalidasa is not merely siva and parvathi but it is worshiping
the two deities or couples paarvatiipa rameshwarau पार्वतीप
रमेश्वरौ. If this is
so the poet is stating that the parents of the world are the lord of Parvathi,
Shiva, and Rameswara the vishnu.. which will in turn lead to the Sankaranaryana tattwa, the mohini episode in purnaas and upto even
Saasta.. historically these ideas were not alien in Ujjain of Kalidasaa's time. Basically the idea whether word and its meaning
would match only if they are attached through a female- male combination
is only speculative. The union between the male and the female is the
most perfect one is a reality. We can find that phenomenon in the birth
of any living thing.. cloning does not create a new living being but is
only a splitting of cells to make replicas. It is poetic, and even
social custom to attribute things soft to the female and the tougher
things to male. Life, literature on any facet of life becomes
well-rounded and proportioned if the content has the right quantity of
softness and toughness. The combination of prakriti and purusha, shiva
and shakthi.. all these concepts reinforce this. And the greatest
attraction in beings is between the negative and the positive (negative
and positive are very relative concepts..in physics negative charge means
excess of electrons.. it is queer to call some state of abundance as
negative), but any man if he is to inhabit meaningfully in a set
environs, needs the company of a woman and vice versa. If word is the
female and the meaning the man, then their compatibility would be
greatest if we consider their gender affinity. Would it mean that the
female is only the word and the meaning lies in the man? I dont want to
create a domestic schism anyway. The word and meaning are inseparable
held together.. like parvati- shiva, lakshminaryanana or Shankaranarayana..that is the greatness of the poet. And the second is
the longevity of the affinity between the vaak and artha.. the best way
is for them to be a male and female to be very close. in nature man and
man may be close for a very short time, so also female and female, but
when the union is between man and woman, the bond is very deep.. and
they will manage to be close most of the time albeit some occasional
quarrel and fist-fight.. Such quarrels we see in bad literature of all
sorts. Even in music we can reach the rhythm only with talam and ragam
and layam.. The talam is maintained by the tough instruments usually of
the percussion type.
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