Dandi and Kalidasa were contemporary poets in the court of Vikramaditya .
One day the king , sensing Dandi's jealousy towards Kalidasa called the two of them and asked them to verse a one liner of the words " There is a dry tree standing here "
Dandi jumped up to the challenge with a dry staccatto verse - "Shushkovrikshathistatyagre".
Dandi's jealousy died when Kalidasa aesthitically responded with "Neerasataruruhavilasithabimbe".
(excerpts from mami's music class)
3 comments:
could you also explain wat the replies meant by both of them ? That would be much appreciated.
Both are oneliners for the line " there is a dy tree standing here "
While on one hand we find a bone dry cracking verse(which almost sounds like you are scolding someone(tone of it) ) in sanskrit from Dandi ... Kalidasa responds with a one liner w(h)et with aesthitics .
hmm...one should know sanskrit to fully appreciate this anecdote
a good post though
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