Wednesday 19 February 2014

Astanayika .... Virahotkanthita Nayika

Many of us know and many don't. Asthanayika in Natyasashtra are an integral part of Indian Classical dance and music. Saint Bharat depicted eight mental and emotional states a woman can have. All the states belong to being in romance and love. Ashtanayika is an integral part of Abhinaya in various Indian classical dance forms and it has been used in many portrait, wall art, sculpture as theme. 

I should ask prior apology for what I am going to do. I am not here to poke or hurt anyone's sentiments those who are very much involved with Natyasastra as I am a devotee of Indian classical dance and worshiper of it. Somehow after getting indulged into Abhinaya especially 'Khandita Nayika' I finished reading other seven Nayikas too. I realized that we women are ocean of sentiments and secrets. We pass through various emotional state while in love and relations. Sometimes we express but few times we don't. We suppress our grief in deepest level of heart and tolerate everything. These eight scenarios were true then and will be true universally for the rest of the time world can have. So suddenly I thought to write few poems based on the same concept one can have.

Mercy please !!  this try is just a form of expressing my influence...


Virahotkanthita Nayika
[ one distressed by separation ]


I was quite, I know
didn't spell a word to you
didn't allow your nuisance though
but kept waiting for you

You could come back
with the old rays of glow
could bring back the glorious part
and could ask my hands with soulful thirst

It didn't happens I know
but still I kept waiting for you

Picture : Wikipedia
Read More : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashta_Nayika
written on 15th Jan,2014


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