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<p lang="en">INTRODUCTION
 
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<p lang="sa">Hamsa Sandesa is a short lyric written in imitation.

of Kalidasa'&apos;s Meghasandesa. As in the case of its model,

it abounds in descriptions of the shrines and other holy

places; but Southern India is chosen as the scene and

this poem may thus be said to be the complement of

Meghasandesa which deals with Northern India. Between
these two regions there is a strip of land in which temples

these two regions there is a strip of land in which temples
and holy places are few and far between, and which can-

not therefore be the scene of any poem of this sort. Like:

Kalidasa, Venkatanatha has introduced Sringara which

must be one of the main Rasas of such a poem, the other-

being pathos. The metre, the division of the poem into

two parts, the first embodying the journey and the

second the message, the choice of a fanciful messenger,

the treatment of the subject and the imagery employed,

in all these the author has closely followed the model,

even the numbers of the stanzas in the parts being nearly

the same.
 
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<p lang="sa">He sees a
 
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<p lang="sa">In the Meghasandesa, the hero of the poem is a

Yaksha who is temporarily exiled from his native land

and bewails his separation from his beloved.

messenger in a cloud formed when the early summer rains

begin. He finds it travelling northwards and entrusts it.

with a message of love to his beloved. The message is
 
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