Srigitagovindam, of saint poet Jayadeva, is composed before eight hundred years, which is being performed by almost all the classical dancers and sung in temples all over the country. In Sri Jagannatha temple, it is recited during the opening and the closing of the door. It has received global acceptance as a subtle poetry which has been translated into most of the important languages of the world. Twenty three hundred manuscripts with hundreds of commentaries are available all over the world. This work (in four volumes) contains fourteen commentaries, three translations, list of imitation, variant readings, microstudies, and discussions on its musical aspects.
Prof. Prafulla Kumar Mishra (B-1954, Puri) is a well-known poet and a prolific writer who writes in Sanskrit, Odia, English, and occasionally in Hindi. He has authored 20 Kavyas, 2 novels in Sanskrit (Published), and three Kavyas in Odia. Apart from this, he has contributed hundreds of Research articles in English, Odia, Hindi, and Sanskrit, published in different distinguished Research journals. He is an established post-modern poet. Sometimes, he turns to tradition to bring traditional flavour to poetry. Several short stories and plays of him in Sanskrit are awaiting for publication. He has gathered vast pool of experience in the field of academia, administration and public life, holding various positions such as the Professor and head of the department of Sanskrit, Utkal University, Chairman PG Council, Utkal University, Director, National Manuscript Mission, Government of India, Vice-Chancellor, North Odisha University, Chancellor, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, and Vice-Chairman, Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan, Ujjain.
During 2004, I was invited to French Institute of Indology at Pondicherry as a consultant for commentary study. Prof. Narang was working on Mallinatha. He advised me to give talks on commentary. I have prepared five lectures on commentary. While delivering that talk I was suggested by the director to make a detailed study. I was thinking of creative criticism on the basis of internal evidences of the text. For the first instance I took up Meghaduta with twelve commentaries. It took a lot of time to prepare the text with variant readings, micro and micro tables of study of commentaries. It was published by Dr. R.S. Sukla, Pratibha Prakashan, New Delhi in 2016.
I am deeply indebted to the authorities of Lalbahadur Shastri, Central Sanskrit University, Delhi, especially to honorable V.C Prof. Muralimanohar Pathak, who immediately agreed to publish. I am immensely grateful to Dean Prof. Siva Sankar Mishra who took a lot of strain to take up this work by their University. I extend my gratitude to Prof. Suryamani Ratha, Prof. Kishore Ch. Tripathy and Prof. Simanchala Panda for helping me in correction of the text.
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