Hara-Gouri’s Relationship in the Podaboli of Ramprasad and Kamalakanta : From Tantric Theory to Inside of Bengali Family/ রামপ্রসাদ ও কমলাকান্তের পদাবলীতে হর-গৌরী সম্পর্কের রূপায়ণ : তন্ত্রতত্ত্ব থেকে বাঙালির অন্দরমহল

Abstract

Shakta Podaboli is a very important genre in the Medieval Bengali Literature. In the crucial time of 18^th century Bengali poets started to write these poems where they tried to get a mental peace and shelter to ‘Maa Kali’ for expressing their grievances and grief. Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta Bhattacharya are the most prominent poets in this genre. Ramprasad is a true devotee of Kali. So He manifests His veneration in the Parjay of ‘Bhakter Akuti’. In these poems He allegorically expresses the true meaning of Tantric ‘Shiva-Shakti’ theory. He reveals Tantric ‘Shatchakrabhed’ and ‘Kundalini’ theory through the metaphors of so called ‘Shiva-Gouri’s conjugal life. In this article we tried to decode that Metaphors through some tantric texts and references. Another poet Kamalakanta Bhattacharya is excellent in the Parjay of ‘Agomoni’ and ‘Bijaya’. ‘Agomoni’ and ‘Bijaya’ is basically based on Uma’s arrival in his father Himalaya’s home and departure to Kailasa. In this context, Shiva has been portrayed as a poor, old and bohemian husband of Bengali girls of that period. Uma’s mother Menaka’s anguish and tormentation is revealed here thinking of Uma’s miserable married life. Menaka sends Himalaya forcefully to Kailasa to fetch Uma only for four days and after four days when Shiva comes to take Uma mother Menaka’s heart fills with distress and disappointments. Kamalakanta’s poems reveal a common photography of contemporary Bengali Family through the cruel system of child marriage of many Uma. We tried to denote that problem through the married life of Shiva and Uma. Mother Menaka’s cry and anguishes echoes through the poems and shows us the painful married life of sacrificed one common Bengali girl whose name is Uma. She is assimilated here with mythological Shiva’s wife Uma. We analysed about it in the article.