Harshadev Madhav
Harshadev Madhav (born 20 October 1954[1] in Vartej[2]) is a Sanskrit poet and writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2006 for his work of poetry, Tava Sparshe Sparshe.[3][4] He had composed over 2200 poems in Sanskrit as of 1992.[1]
While working in a telegraph office in Palitana, he completed his M.A. in Sanskrit from Saurashtra University with first rank, and subsequently became a lecturer at H. K. Arts College, Ahmedabad.[1] He did his B.Ed and Ph.D from Gujarat University.[2]
He lives in Gandhinagar. He won a Gujarat Sanskrit Academy Award in 1994, and Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award in 1997–98. His book "Nishkyantaha Sarve" won the All-India Kalidas Award for 1997–98, awarded by the Madhya Pradesh Kalidas Akademi.[5] In 2010 he was awarded a Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar in Gujarat.[6] He participated in the Kavisammelana at the 13th World Sanskrit Conference, Edinburgh[7] and the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto.[8]
He is credited with introducing Japanese Haiku and Tanka, and Korean Sijo, into Sanskrit poetry.[1] Samir Kumar Datta puts in him the category of modernist or revolutionary Sanskrit poets, and says:[9]
Harshadev Madhav is a modern poet in true sense of the term. He thinks that poetry should appeal first to intellect and thereafter to emotion. In the eternal controversy between intellectuality and emotionalism Harshadeva takes side of intellectuality […] Harshadev happens to be one of the most profound modern Sanskrit poets. He betrays the great influence exerted on him by modern vernacular poetry and some of the images carved out by modern vernacular poets.
Works
- Gujarati works
- Hath Phamphose Andhla Sugandhne (1985) (poetry)[2]
- Mahakavi Magh (1993) (literary criticism)[2]
- Śrīvāṇī citraśabdakośa (Sanskrit-English-Hindi-Gujarati picture dictionary)[10]
- Sanskrit poetry
- Alakananda (1990)[2]
- Mrugaya (1994)[2]
- Brihannala (1995)
- Lavaras-digdhah Swapana-mayah Parvatah (1996)[2]
- Asischcha Me Manasi (1996)[2]
- Nishkrantah Sarve (1997)
- Mṛtyusyam Kastūrīmṛgosti: Collection of modern Sanskrit plays and articles (1998)[11]
- Buddhasya Bhiskhapatre
- Bhāvasthirāṇi jananāntarasauhṛdāni[12]
- Kaṇṇakyā kṣiptaṃ māṇikyanūpuram: caturdaśaḥ Saṃskr̥takāvyasaṅgrahaḥ (2001)[13]
- Bhāti te Bhāratam: Saṃskr̥ta-prati-kāvyam (2007)[14]
- In English
- Modern Sanskrit poetry of Gujarat up to the end of 20th century in Contribution of Gujarat to Sanskrit Literature (1998)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Radhavallabh Tripathi, ed. (1992), Ṣoḍaśī: An Anthology of Contemporary Sanskrit Poets, Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 81-7201-200-4
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Kartik Chandra Dutt (1999), Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M, Sahitya Akademi, p. 495, ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5, retrieved 15 December 2010
- ↑ Parul Sharma (February 18, 2007). "A "Festival of Letters"". The Hindu.
- ↑ Oneindia.in News, December 21, 2006
- ↑ Competition Science Vision. Pratiyogita Darpan. August 2001. p. 572. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Ashadhasya Pratham Divase – Modi honors Sanskrit scholars, Gandhinagar, 12 July 2010
- ↑ 13th WSC: Participants
- ↑ 14th WSC
- ↑ Samir Kumar Dutta, "The concept of Aucitya: Acceptability and applicability in modern sanskrit", Indologica Taurinensia XXX: 83–85, retrieved October 9, 2012
- ↑ Harṣadeva Mādhava (2001). Śrīvāṇī citraśabdakośa: Saṃskr̥ta, Aṅgrejī, Hindī ane Gujarātī : caturbhāṣī kośa. Pārśva Publication. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Harṣadeva Mādhava (1998). Collection of modern Sanskrit plays and articles. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Harṣadeva Mādhava (2000). Bhāvasthirāṇi jananāntarasauhṛdāni. Pārśva Publications. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Harṣadeva Mādhava (2001). Kaṇṇakyā kṣiptaṃ māṇikyanūpuram: caturdaśaḥ Saṃskr̥takāvyasaṅgrahaḥ. Śrīvāṇī Akādamī. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Harṣadeva Mādhava; Arun Ranjan Mishra; Narayan Dash (2007). Bhāti te Bhāratam: Saṃskr̥ta-prati-kāvyam. Smt. Sabita Dash. Retrieved 15 December 2010.