SRI KRISHNAVIJAYAH & NALODAYAH

Book Details:

• Title: Srikrishnavijyam and Nalodaya
• Author: Dr. K.P.A. Menon
• Publisher: Nag Prakashan
• ISBN: 8170813859
• Edition: 1998
• Size: Demy 1/8
• Pages: 582

 (Text with Introduction & English Translation)

                                                     Dr. K. P. A. Menon

This seventh volume of the series comprises two kavyas of great lyrical beauty, one of them in the Yamaka style and the other generally conforming to the second letter alliteration which has been popular with the poets of Kerala from the period of Samgham literature. Nalodayah should be considered as the earliest composition on the famous Nala-Damayanti episode dealt with in the Mahabharata and had been falsely paraded as one of the works of Kalidasa for a while. Its authorship has been assigned by the present writer to Ravideva of the 9th-10th century.

Srikrishnavijayah is the composition of a Kerala poet known as Sankarakavi who was the court poet of a Kola ruler of Northern Malabar of the 15th century A. D. with the name of Keralvarma. This poem which excels in sabdalankara had attained great popularity and, though the poet is being mentioned with great respect all the time, his composition has practically gone out of circulation. In his detailed introduction the present translator has thrown a lot of light on Poet Sankara and his times.

                        CLASSICAL SANSKRIT LITERATURE OF KERALA  -   VOL. NO 7