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Though earth and heaven should search to find its like If he should try ev'n now for all his life ?

Her speech and tone and can he e'er succeed Great Brahma made the fluteĪnd vina, parrots, koils, and children's babble,Īnd then he coped all sweetness with her voice: Of any kind without the slightest fault ? The moon has got its spot, and where is form (1) Rama's description of Sita, as he gave his final instructions to Hanuman before his departure in search of her: The fact, however, is there that Kamban's heroes and heroines are beings of a decidedly higher stature than those of Valmiki.' The student of Valmiki will wonder how his Rama and Bharata, Ravana and Kumbhakarna, Vali and Hanuman, Sita and Kausalya, and the rest could be improved. But in Kamban's hand they have become much more grand. Here too, Valmiki has set the stamp on the characters of the Ramayana. The lines are drawn with a firm hand, and the characters are painted with such accuracy and fullness that from any single sentence, and sometimes even from a single phrase in a speech, one can tell the person speaking without any the least doubt. In the delineation of character, Kamban stands on a level with the greatest poets in the world. But on going through the whole poem of Kamban, one is constrained to exclaim, 'Here is a building which is built on the same plan no doubt, and with the same materials, but which possesses a striking individuality of its own.'. Every limb of Kamban's story is of course familiar to the student of In the manner also in which the incidents have been joined together to form the whole, no ordinary skill has been displayed.

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In the manner of developing the situations, in the gradation by which the climax of each situation is brought about, in the justesse which knows how to bring about all its capabilities out of each situation, we feel the touch of the But if Kamban takes the situations from Valmiki, he has treated them absolutely in his own way. Now the plot in almost all its details is Valmiki's. The poem satisfies the soul with its ampleur, the proportion of its parts, and the art with which the parts are combined into an organic whole.Kamban has shown his genius for the architectonics of poetry both where he follows Valmiki as well as where he departs from his The build and structure of the Ramayana of Kamban are superb. But our great epic poets have proved one may tell a story in the chronological order and yet write a poem that generations will not willingly let Have an undeniable advantage over the Indian maha kavyas in that their dramatic opening arrests the imagination even at the very commencement of the poem, while the Indian epics have to gather momentum before they are able to carry with them the attention of the modern reader. On the other hand, the epics of Europe, as is well known, follow their prototype and example, the 'Iliad', and start the story as near the end as possible, filling in the earlier events by slight allusions as well as by episodic narrative.

Up to the close of the action which forms its theme. The reader will have noticed that the Ramayana follows in its natural order the life of the hero from his birth and childhood It is not Valmiki Ramayana, but it is a grander poem.' Bentley said of Pope's Iliad', 'It is a pretty poem, but you must not call it Homer.' Of Kamban's Ramayana we should say reversing the language, He has merely taken the story immortalised by the Aryan sageĪnd, though he has followed it closely enough in all its details, has written an entirely original poem.

I spoke of Valmiki's work as the original of Kamban's Ramayana. Truth of my contention and with a desire to know more of the poet than what he will see exhibited within the pages of this And I hope to make the impartial reader rise from the study of this monograph with a conviction of the It is an opinion that has grown slowly with the years and after deep and careful study. This is not the language of mere patriotic enthusiasm. It is, however, my purpose in this book to make an attempt to prove that in the Ramayana of Kamban the world possesses an epic which can challenge comparison not merely with the 'Iliad' and the 'Aeneid', the 'Paradise Lost' and the 'Mahabharata', but with its original itself, namely, the 'Ramayana' of Valmiki. Worthy to take rank with the greatest names in literature. 'It is not easy to convince the literary world at this late hour of the day that there is, unsuspected by the greater part of it, a Tamil poet who is Published posthumously, a quarter century after his demise in 1950

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