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द्वारिका प्रसाद माहेश्वरी

Dwarika Prasad Maheshwari

Every composition by this voice held in the archive, laid out in full and grouped by the rasa it carries.

13
Compositions
5
Rasas
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शान्त

Shanta

The rasa that arrives after the others have spoken. Not emptiness but settlement, the water clear because it has stopped being stirred, wanting nothing further from the hour.

6 compositions

  1. 01मैं सुमन हूँMain Suman Hoon3 versesRead →
  2. 02हम सब सुमन एक उपवन केHum Sab Suman Ek Upvan Ke4 versesRead →
  3. 03मूलमंत्रMoolmantra4 versesRead →
  4. 04इतने ऊँचे उठोItne Oonche Utho5 versesRead →
  5. 05कौन सिखाता है चिडियों कोKaun Sikhata Hai Chidiyon Ko5 versesRead →
  6. 06हम हैंHum Hain1 verseRead →

वीर

Veera

The rasa of the step taken anyway. Courage in this key is unglamorous and precise: the vow spoken before the odds are counted, the standing that costs something and is done quietly.

3 compositions

  1. 01पुनः नया निर्माण करोPunah Naya Nirman Karo6 versesRead →
  2. 02वीर तुम बढ़े चलोVeer Tum Badhe Chalo6 versesRead →
  3. 03उठो धरा के अमर सपूतोUtho Dhara Ke Amar Sapooto6 versesRead →

शृंगार

Shringara

The rasa of nearness and its long shadow. Not only the meeting, also the waiting that precedes it, the doorway watched all evening, the way a room rearranges itself around one absent person.

2 compositions

  1. 01माँ! यह वसंत ऋतुराज री!Maa! Yeh Vasant Rituraj Ree!6 versesRead →
  2. 02उठो लाल अब आँखे खोलोUtho Laal Ab Aankhe Kholo6 versesRead →

अद्भुत

Adbhuta

The rasa of the widened eye. Scale undoes us gently here: the world proves larger than the sentence built for it, and the poem's finest achievement is to stay astonished.

1 composition

  1. 01यदि होता किन्नर नरेश मैंYadi Hota Kinnar Naresh Main8 versesRead →

हास्य

Hasya

The rasa of the tilted glance. Comedy here is not decoration but diagnosis, the poet lets the world overhear itself, and the pretension collapses of its own weight.

1 composition

  1. 01चंदा मामा, आChanda Mama, Aa4 versesRead →