शेषस्वनितम्: Sanskrit Poems

The title book 'Seshasvanitam' clearly indicaties that this is the last piece of my work. Prior to this eight books of mine in different branches of literature like kavya, translation and eassays were published. Some articles were also published in different magazines and news papers. the name of the books, published are given in a separate page.

One Pandit Shri Prabhakar Dash of village Kalinga in Dhenkanal district of Orissa was eager to knwo the meaning of some verses of 'Narasimha Stuti' (A poem of eulogy to Narasimha) which contained only twenty two verses. Those verses were in tended to kill the enemies. The last lines of all the verses in teh eulogy clearly indicate this purpose.

O almighty Narasimha! kill my evil-doers. But practically I am not interested in Black image of tantra vidya by which one does harm to others of fulfils one's evil intention.

The artistic expression of the poem impressed me and induced to explain those verses. The readers are requested to go throught the verses and feel the poetic charm, lying there in.

This eulogy finds a place in the 'Narasimha Stotramala', published by the Bharati Vedanta Academy in Madhvacharya. Being impressed by his poetic talents and erudition Madhvachary advised him to write a commentary on his 'Vedanta Sutra Bhasya'.

That commentary is known as 'Tattvadipika' 'Vayu Stuti' of this poet is recited as parayana by devotees of Madhvacharya. The time of Shripada Madhvacharya is 1197 to 1276 A.D. So this poet most probably lived in the latter half of thirteenth century.

Along with this poem of 'Trivikramacharya', some poems of mine are also included in the book 'Shesasvanitam'.

I express my hearty gratitude to Prof. Harekrishna Satapathy, Vice-Chancellor and Prof. A. Gurumurthy, Registar, Rashtriya San-skrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati for their kind approval in publication of my work. It gives me immense pleasure to acknowledge the help rendred by Dr. K. Suryanaryana and Dr. Dilip Kumar Mishra in Publishing the work. I thank them from the core of my heart.

Vachaspati Bhubaneswar Kar, a well-know Sanskrit scholar of Orissa was born on 24th Aug 1925. He served at various institutes of Orissa and retired in 1985 as Reader in Sanskrit, GM college, Sambalpur. He is a prolific wirter and produced various literary works in Sanskrit, and has wirtten more than 15 works. He is a recipient of many honors including Jayadeva Samman (2007) by Odisa Sanskrit Academy, Bhubaneswar, conferred Vachaspati title (2007) by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati, Kavi Krushnanda Sammana (2004), by Sanskrit Bharati, Cuttack and was honoured by different institues.

Some of the importants works of the authro are- Putaprema, Dosasatakam. Jeebanandarshanam, Chayanam, Suryastakatika, Upadesadvishati, Trirangam.

'Shesasvanitam' is a collection of poems composed by the author on various subjects, some of them addressed to various deities. The first poem is addressed to Lord Venkateswara, Teh Lord of Seven Hills at Tirupati. Teh secod one deals with the greatness of Sanskrit language.

In poems like 'Panjara suka' and 'Kaka' the author deals with the subject of parrot and crow respectively. Teh moral insights of the author can be noticed in 'Nitishloka'. The last topic of this work is 'Shri Narasimha Stuti's for which the author has written a lucid Sanskrit commentary on the finer aspects of the verses.

Thus, the book is deals with a variety of subjects, displaying the scholarly and poetic skills of the author.