Bhadrambhadra.

- Window Seat-Udayan Thakkar

Shankara appeared to Dolatshankar in a dream. Shankara raised a trident, 'Did you associate Yavanshabda like Dolat with me?' Dolatshankar became water. He assumed the name 'Bhadrambhadra' the very next day

Gu Jarati's best comedy-novel is Ramanbhai Nilkanth's 'Bhadrambhadra.' This famous literary work mocking the orthodox was published in 1900. The one who has a difficult, Sanskrit-rich conversation today is called Bhadrambhadra. The description does not taste like sugar. Taste a few chapters?

The main characters of the story are Bhadrambhadra and his disciple Ambalal. The whole story is told by Ambalal. This is the first Gujarati novel written in the first male singular. Knowing that a meeting had been held in Madhavbagh, Mumbai to oppose the Reformers, Dolatshankar (Bhadrambhadra's original name) decided to go there. The night before the departure, Dolatshankar saw Shankara in a dream. Shankara raised a trident, 'Did you associate Yavanshabda like Dolat with me?' Dolatshankar became water. He assumed the name 'Bhadrambhadra' the very next day. (Every year the situation is like this: some groups say 'Diwali Mubarak' is not spoken because 'Mubarak' is a Greek word!) The author never misses an opportunity to ridicule superstition '

Bhadrambhadra's idea was to burn the name 'Bhadrambhadra' in large letters on his forehead so that people would not be unknowingly called by the next name. But I doubted that Shiva liked this name but if he disliked any other deity then it hurts. The printed name will not come out and no one will take any permanent step till the will of all the gods is known.

Two shares come to mindઃ

'I'm still on one

One knee

Thirty-three crores to you

How are you

Mars three hundred, sleeping hundred,

Rajbhog in two hundred,

Aapne Thakorji

Fell at a very reasonable price '

Bhadrambhadra and Ambalal reached the station.

Leaning his shoulder to the window, Bhadrambhadra said, 'Give me two Mohamayi's value papers.' The ticket master was a Parsi. He said, 'What the heck? I have a ticket office. ' Bhadrambhadra replied, 'Yavan! So I am not ignorant. I need two Mohammedan value books, it is my duty to distribute them. '

(The author has created linguistic humor by combining Sanskrit rich language with Parsi Gujarati. Jyotindra Dave's successful use of Parsi dialogues in subsequent years ('Ashok was Parsi' 'Mahabharat: Ek Drishti') makes us feel a little better Also uses terms: Kanthalangot (tie), Ashvadvaya Krishtachatushchakra Kachgavaksh Saptachhadan Samet Rath (motor vehicle), Agni Rath Viram Gaman Nigman Suchak Darshak Loh Pattika (Railway Signal) etc. etc. There was a heated debate between Nilkanth and others. The novel satirizes the hypocrisy and bigotry of conservatives.)

In the railways, there are eighteen passengers, the air is 'bad', so the idea of ​​Bhadrambhadra was to get down and breathe when the station arrives and to do pranayama while the train is moving. Ambalal argued that "if the car runs, the air changes and the outside air comes in, so there is no problem in breathing." (The book is heavily influenced by the Spanish novel Don Quixote, published in 1905. Both Bhadrambhadra and Don Quixote are ridiculed for being imaginative. Quixote's servant It takes work.) As soon as the train left, Bhadrambhadra and Ambalal said, 'Madhavbagh ki je!' Someone asked, what is Madhavbagh? Shocked, Bhadrambhadra told him:

'What a fool! Don't know about Madhavbagh? The news of the meeting is spreading in ten directions ... From the shock of the news of the meeting .. Dadhisamudra has become one with the ocean of milk violating Shakadvipa, who is reformed by the news of the meeting. Are you ignorant of the meeting of Madhavbagh? Aha! Jai Jai Shree Rang Rang! Excitement! Nang! .. Our sages were Trikalagyani so they did not need to search for any species ... This fool is only ignorant about Madhavbagh Sabha ... Donkeys from you ... '

(Geography and astronomy described in the Puranas a thousand or two thousand years ago are still considered by some to be true today. In the rhyme of 'Jai Shri Rang! Umang!'

Whom Bhadrambhadra called idiots, donkeys, etc. abusively, he threw them down with a drum. On this occasion, and on the occasion of the lafa lapping the Parsi ticket clerk, only coarse laughter is produced. A fellow passenger on the train started saying to Bhadrambhadra:

'A scribe came to our village, saying that it is written in the scriptures not to eat shingoda. Because it is shaped like a cone and therefore has the abode of Brahmaji, because the original cosmic egg was cone-shaped like a horn. '

The irrational scripture is satirized here. Shingoda was eaten all over the village, so Shastri collected money from everyone for mass atonement. (In the Middle Ages, religion was exploited all over the world in name. Heaven was sold in the Vatican. As noted by Mahendra Joshi, the novel bears a resemblance to Samuel Butler's epic "Hoodibras". The thug informs Bhadrambhadra about Mumbai:

'Such a big village that if you forget it, you will not even find it, for that there are good iron pillars everywhere. If there is no road, leave the ticket on the forehead and write the address and stand there.

(Jyotindra Dave has written an essay on how the children of Surat were making up their minds about Mumbai.) Let's listen to Harjivan's dialogue with Ambalal:

'Where to stay?'

'Ahmedabad'

'Be a Brahmin.'

'Yes'

'Is that a boy?'

Ambalal said 'no' and looked horizontally to stop talking. But what if he puts that caddo? He asked again, 'Will it be Baidi?' Ambalal shook his head. Pella continued the question, 'Not married but dead?'

'Dead.'

'Died in childbirth?'

'The fever was coming.'

"Didn't find a good doctor, or did you go to see a doctor?"

'The doctor's.'

'Which doctor?'

'You don't know.'

'But say the name!'

Jyotindra Dave has written an essay with the title '' '' 'about a character who goes to ask endless questions. Does anyone have any questions about where he got his inspiration from?

Bhadrambhadra and Ambalal's train journey continues. I saw a lot of people riding in a moving car; Let's get off the moving car.