"Sri Vedanta Desika Vijayam" - a sanskrit drama- Press report from The Indian Express

[Guest guest]

Sri:

 

Dear Sri Vaishnavas,

 

Here is the news about "Sri Vedantha Desika Vijayam" - a sanskrit

drama staged

by Sri.M.V.Anandapadmanabhan, editor of Sriranga Sadajit Krupa tamil

magazine

on 18th June at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, T.Nagar, Madras. Few weeks

back Sri.

Madavakkannan has send out a mail about this program on the

bhakthi-list. So,

hope you all might remember this event. Sri. Anand karalappakkam had a

bhakgyam to enjoy this drama on the stage, So, he may like to add his

lively

lovely comments on this...

 

Here is the news about this drama which got published in "The Indian

Express",

one of the famous newspapers in India. Please read on...

 

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"Sri Vedantha Desika Vijayam" - A sanskrit play

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The great Srivaishnava polymath, Acharya Nigamantha Mahadesika

(1268-1379 AD),

author of more than 100 works in three languages, Sanskrit, Tamil and

Prakritham, led a glorious life spread over a century and consolidated

further

the Visishtadvaita philosophy of Sri Ramanuja. Sri Vedanta Desika

Vijayam, a

two-hour play in Sanskrit, staged at Sri Krishna Gana sabha, Chennai,

last

Sunday (18th June) brought into sharp focus all the essential features

of

Desika's life and achievements. Staged by Sri Ranga Shatajith Krupa,

an

organisation devoted to philosophies through the medium of Tamil and

Sanskrit,

the play was most impressive and spectacular. The piece-de-resistance

of the

play were true to life festival processions of the Lords of Kanchi and

Sri

Rangam, the swarna vrishti (shower of gold coins) caused by the hymn

Sri

Sthuthi and the cascading of water from a pillar that quelled

mayaavi(a

sorcerer) into abject submission.

 

Playwright MV. Ananthapadmanabhan, a very young noted Sanskrit scholar

has

produced this play with missionary zeal which deserves warm

approbation. His

dream is to take this play both around the country and the world. He

plans to

stage a spectacular play in Tamil that will take you to a tour of the

108

Vaishnavaite Divya Desams for a continuos 52 hours - hoping for a

Guinness

record (in the process). Rangarajan and AIR artiste Janaki Ramanujam

provided

supportive mellifluous music, consistent with the thematic content of

the play.

More than 800 witnessed the play, which by itself is a valid

certificate of

commendation.

 

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Thanks,

adiyen,

Ramanujadasan,

Achutharaman.