কবি বিদ্যাপতির কবিতায় বসন, পট্টবস্ত্র : মোটিফ, প্রতীক ও সৌন্দর্য রূপের অপরিহার্য অর্জন : ভারতীয় সাহিত্যের উপক্রমণিকা/ Reference of clothes, Particularly of jute clothes in the poetry of Vidyapati : Essential symbol of motif and beauty : The Prelude of Ind

Abstract

On this earth the rising of true human civilization had occurred through the introduction of weaving industry. Human beings have differred themselves from other inferior creatures only for their aesthetic as well as artistic sense and feeling. The weaving artisans are known as ‘Tantubay’ or ‘Tanti’. According to ancient Hindu mythology those wise and learned craftsmen noted as the sons of God ‘Vishwakarma’, had been trodden-down in society being cursed by the dominating presence of Brahmanism. This down-trodden community is at the root of human civilization. Since remote and hoary past in encient India there had been the introduction of weaving industry. We get the references of it, in the ‘Rig-Veda’, the ‘Ramayana’, the ‘Mahabharata’, and the ‘Puranas’. Poet Vidyapati in his poetry has adorned an exquisite beauty of Radha with magnificent clothes. The major part of the poet’s creation is based on clothes. Radha has beautified herself sometimes with blue-coloured clothes, sometimes with silk and again sometimes with jute fabrics. This variation of clothes has been the manifestation of Radha’s innermost mind. In the first phase of culturally growing fast developed human civilization the ‘Tantubaya’ community had produced ‘Kouseya Bastra’ (jute fabrics), Khouma Bastra (fabrics made from the barks of small plants or shrubs).

The clothes of Krishna, The hero of the ‘Vaishnava Padabali’ is also excusitely blue. In a word the plan of clothing of the dual image of Radha Krishna is based on the idea of the Puranas. It is the clothing that has enhanced the physical beauty of both the hero and heroine in Vidyapati’s poetry.