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The Biochemistry of Love, Vegetation, and Eroticism: An Analytical Study of Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta

Author(s) Dr. Sashikanta Barik
Country India
Abstract Abstract:
Love in human body – be it man or woman-is a mysterious chemistry. The body creates the urge for union between the sexes. Exactly the same phenomenon happens among the nature’s organisms. But it is tremendously interesting to know when this happens between the lifeless mute objects like Cloud and the Earth to engender Nature’s vegetations. Kālidāsa, the greatest playwright in Indian classical literature in 1st century BC among the ‘nine gems’ in the court of King Vikramāditya of Ujjaini, has envisioned in his artistic finesse Meghadūttam the coital act between the cloud and the rivers on Earth along with the mountains, a leviathan masculine body reposed upon the giant feminine body, depicting a rich diversity of eroticism. In this context, the paper has reprojected the mythic legend of conjugal love and separation between Yakṣa (Hemamāli) and Yakṣiṇī (Viśālākṣī) of Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa, by magically focussing the cloud as the catalyst of begetting amorous advances of love, sex and rejuvenation. It confirms with the logic of Vegetation ritual and the Sāṁkhya philosophy (that) cloud or rain is permeated with the spirit of life, rejuvenation and Śṛṅgāra (erotic desire) that sustains mankind by a close organic relationship.
As the original story retells disobedient to Lord Kubera of Alakāpurī of Kailāsa Parvata, Yakṣa has been cursed to stay in separation from his newly wedded wife Yakṣiṇī for a period of one year as abstinence on the Rāmagiri mountain of Earth. With the cognition of cloud as ‘Prakṛti-puruṣa’ and a symbol of masculine virility, Yakṣa has prayed it to be the messenger of his love-tidings from his bereaved heart to his remorseful wife at Alakā. The cloud’s route as suggested by Yakṣa from Southern India to Northern Himalayan region covering the long winding tracts of mountains and rivers is a miraculous chemistry of love and sex, aligned with Nature’s permanent geography. Thus it heals up and sustains, as it generates erotic desire with an artistic finish.
Keywords Keywords: Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa, Sāṁkhya philosophy, Vegetation ritual, Eroticism Prakṛti-puruṣa.
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2025
Published On 2025-01-26
Cite This The Biochemistry of Love, Vegetation, and Eroticism: An Analytical Study of Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta - Dr. Sashikanta Barik - IJFMR Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2025. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i01.35760
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i01.35760
Short DOI https://doi.org/g829q6
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