Abhigyan Shakuntalam: A Garhwali Drama based on Sanskrit Classic Abhigyan Shakuntalam

(Review of a Garhwali Drama ‘Abhigyan Shakuntalam ‘(1977-1978) by Dr.Pushkar Naithani)

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संस्कृत नाटकों से अनुवादित नाटक ; संस्कृत नाटकों से एशियाई अनुवादित नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित दक्षिण एशियाई नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित भारतीय नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित उत्तर भारतीय नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित हिमालयी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित मध्य हिमालयी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित उत्तराखंडी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित कुमाउनी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित गढवाली नाटक लेखमाला

                                          Bhishma Kukreti

         Dramatization based on classics has been an old tradition in drama world literature and still modern playwright write drams based on classics. For example, in recent time, Paul Olson wrote there plays based on classic fictions as Dracula by Bram Stoker; A Christmas Carol of Charles Dickens; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. There are films based on classics as ‘The Phantom of Opera’, ‘Casonova’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ etc.

   In Modern Garhwali literature, there is translation of Classic Poetries and stories but there was gap of translating Sanskrit Classic dramas/plays.  Dr. Pushkar Naithani (born in 1953) filled the gap of translating Sanskrit drama in Garhwali.  Dr. Pushkar Naithani translated fourth Sarg of Abhigyan Shakuntalam a Classic Sanskrit Drama written by Kalidas in initial years of Christ centuries. Dr Naithani wrote the drama and staged in 1977-78

  Dr Naithani brilliantly translated Sanskrit prose and poems into Garhwali version of poems and prose too. The translation is marvelous example of translation.

Here is an example of prose portion translated by Dr,Pushkar –-

 विष कम्भक

(इनो दृश्य जां से भविष्य कि सूचना दियेन्द)

तब क्व्व्कू एक च्याला सेक उठिका आंदा)

शिष्य- परदेश बिटेन लौट्याँ  पूज्य क्व्व न बगत (टैम) दिखणो मी थै भेजूं च . ये वास्ता भैर जैकी दिक्ख्दु कि अब राति कथगा बाकी च

  Here is example of translation poetic form of Abhigyan Shakuntalam Drama written by Kalidas

सातवाँ

नियत हुईं च जगह वेदी की

लखड़ा धरया छें वेदी सजीं च

कंसलू बिछ्युं च चारो ओर

पवित्र कारा या अग्नि त्वे थै

     Drama world will always remember the works of Dr Pushkar Naithani for his initiation of translating Sanskrit classic drama into Garhwali for the first time in the history. Dr Naithani successfully carried out the responsibility of a translator for poems and prose portions of the original Sanskrit drama.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 31/5/2012

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संस्कृत नाटकों से अनुवादित नाटक ; संस्कृत नाटकों से एशियाई अनुवादित नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित दक्षिण एशियाई नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित भारतीय नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित उत्तर भारतीय नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित हिमालयी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित मध्य हिमालयी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित उत्तराखंडी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित कुमाउनी नाटक ;संस्कृत नाटकों के अनुवादित गढवाली नाटक लेखमाला जारी ....