Growth and Development of Bengali Communion literature : A short study/ বাংলা আলাপন সাহিত্যের ধারা : একটি সংক্ষিপ্ত আলোচনা

Abstract

We are discussing about the growth and development of Bengali communion literature. At the very beginning, we will see what communion is.  We know that communion is when two or more people discuss or talk about any particular issue or various issue, and when this discussion goes beyond our personal need and literary anger erupts, that is called as communion literature. 

       To see about Bengali communion literature's origin and growth, we noticed that before the origination of Bengali literature, we got the quest of communion in Ancient Indian Literature. 

       We have found instances of discourse in some ancient indian literature like the great two epic ‘The Ramayana’ and ‘The Mahabharata’, ‘The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad’, the great conversation between Shri Krishna and Arjuna in ‘The Srimadbagbadgeeta’. Not just that we also got this information about discourses in Buddhist religious book – Tripitaks ‘Suttapitak’. That is in this trend of conversation was among there were various literary antigact of ancient indian literature. We have also received this tradition of Indian Literature in Bengali literature. For the earliest example of Bengali literature ‘The Charyapada’, we have received the essence of conversation. 

        After the Charyapada, when we explore the various literary examples of Bengali literature one by one, we notice numerous examples of conversation. In Mukunda Chakrabarty’s ‘Avayamangal’ other Mangalkabya's, in middle age of Bengali literature, Bharatchandra Roy's ‘Anndamangal Kabya’. Krishna Das Kabiraj Goswami's ‘Srisrichaitnyacharitamrito’, Brindaban Das's ‘Chaitanyavagbad’ and in Bengali translated literature (The Ramayana of Krittibas Ojha and The Mahabharata of Kashiram Das) we have seen the style of conversation and have also mentioned it. Not only that, there is direct conversation between Krishna, Radha and Barai in Baruchandidas's ‘Shrikrishnakirtan’ and also in the ‘Maimanshiha ballads’ 

         In the modern era of Bengali literature, we have seen discourses of various characters in Madhusudan Dutta's ‘Meghbadbadh’, Bamkimchandra's ‘Dharmatatwa’, Swami Vivekananda's ‘Swami-Shisya sambad’, Rabindranath's ‘Panchavut’, and many others. But the books in Bengali literature that are completely based on conversation, we have seen in Ramakrishna ‘Kathamrita’ and in Anukulchandra Chakraborty's 48 books.

        Not just conversation, within all this conversation, we have observed various qualities of literature and that is why, I am saying that discourses can also attain the dignity of literature.