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Poetry

An Extract from my Historical Epic

I have a passing interest in many things. History, and especially South Asian history, is one of them. I don’t write much creative writings in other languages but have a mind...

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A Faux-Vedic Agni Hymn

This is a faux-vedic Agni hymn that I did sometimes ago. In constrast to my other pieces so far, it is somewhat more Vedic in construction and employes some actual tropes and...

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Struwwelpeter

Metrical : (उपजाति) Prose: अत्राप्युदाहरन्त्येवम् । पुरा ह शर्म्मण्यदेशे त्वः कीर्ण्णोपलो नाम बालक आस । दुर्व्विनेयं च तं पिता हैवमाह - मा पुत्त्र चूषीरथ त्वमङ्गुलीरिति । मा हैनं...

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शुकविलापः

The following is a Sanskrit translation of Lekhnath Paudyal’s 1917 poem पिंजडाको सुगा (Parrot in a Cage) that I did a couple of years ago. There are, it seems to me now, both...

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च्यवनः

PDF Version यन्नामादिनामभावात्क्लिष्टत्वाच्च वाचां दुष्करमिदं पद्यं तद्वयं व्याख्यास्यामः । न पुनः कवौ सम्मानात् । दम्भी हि कविः कलावप्यात्मानमृषिवन्मन्वानः...

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