हंससंदेशः /21

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<p lang="en">HAMSASANDESA-A
 
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<p lang="sa">A STUDY &amp; CRITICAL
 
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<p lang="en">APPRECIATION
 
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<p lang="en">BY
 
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<p lang="sa">KAPISTHALAM KRISHNAMACHARYA, B.A., L.T.

HEAD MASTER, TIRUPATI.
 
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<p lang="sa">That, in the midst of his voluminous philosophical

and didactic works, Sri Venkatanatha, or Sri Vedanta

Desika as he is more popularly known, found it possible

to leave behind him some poems of no inferior order, like

the Yadavabhyudaya and the Hamsasandesa, is of no

small import to all true lovers of Sanskrit literature. In

the former he does not appear to have kept before him

any model to follow but to have only drawn upon his

own constructive skill; but this much cannot be said of

the latter. Here the model he had before his mind'&apos;s eye
 
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<p lang="sa">was certainly Kalidasa'&apos;s Meghasandesa. But it is not a

totally slavish imitation of the model he has permitted

himself to accomplish. He has left his stamp of originality

here and there in the fitting of the details of the poem;

and this is transparently evident even to a casual reader

thereof. In order to establish this point, I have undertaken

here to take the reader through a critical study of his

poem, the Hamsasandesa, in some detail, instituting as

far as necessary a comparison between it and the

Meghasandesa.
 
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<p lang="sa">The plan of the poem is based upon Kalidasa'&apos;s. The

meeting of the forlorn lover with the messenger, the

thought of the beloved and her forced sufferings from
 
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