Poem to Kali Ma

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Poem to Kali Ma

 

Thank you for asking Sameerji because there is more of this song or

poems available under the book called "Grace and Mercy in Her

Wild Hair : Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess , translated by

Clinton Seely and Leonard Nathan. However they have only translated

the songs by Ramprasad Sen (1720-81)(an accountant by vocation) poet

who lived during the governance of famed Kali Ma devotee, King

Krishnachandra Ray of Krishnanagar in Bengal. Today we have more

than 200 songs that is reputed written by Ramprasad however the

scholars believe some of this songs were written under his pen name

but not by him as it is written after his period' In Gospel of

Sri Ramakrishna, we see Thakur singing his song but refrain from some

as the song do not aspire devotionalism .(Maybe some which is not

actually his)We will cover his life story later in our post.

 

Later was born poets like Kamalakanta Chakravarti (d. 1821)who was

shaktha too, then we have Tripura Court chief minister Ramdulal Nandi

(1785-1851) .Then at mid nineteenth century we see emergence of not

Kali devotees but poet who sang Her song like Trailokyanath Sanyal,

Dvijendralal Ray, Nabai Moyra, Bireshvar Chakravarti, and Kalidas

Bhattacharya

 

Recently we had Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who is more aligned

to Brahmo Samaj (remember Sri Ramakrishna close relationship with

Brahmo Samaj leader Keshab Chandra Sen!!) singing Ma `s song

but more towards invoking nationalism in the people of India for

independence .This is where songs like Vande Mataram started to

ignite fire of independent India in their people for independency

from British. Kazi Nazrul Islam another poet who combioned the old

and new in his songs which was one of the recent attempt to sing the

poem in Ramprasada Sen style in this modern time

 

This was collected by Sagaree Sengupta for his webpage

called "Bengali Songs to the Goddesss Kali " under ;

http://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/translations/essays/shyam

asangeet.html

 

Jai Kali !!!!

 

 

Kali_Ma, "Sameer A. Salgaocar" <ysalgaocar> wrote:

>

> 1.7

>

> Om Kali,

>

> Brother Kanna,

>

> Thanks for posting these beautiful poems of Ramprasad

> Sen. May I ask where you obtained these lovely works ?

>

> Jai Ma Kali,

>

> Sameer

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--- kanna_krishnan2002 <kanna_krishnan2002

wrote:

 

3.7

 

Om Kali

 

Brother Kanna,

 

Thanks for the information and once again many thanks

for the beautiful postings.

 

Jai Maa Kali,

 

Sameer

 

> Poem to Kali Ma

>

> Thank you for asking Sameerji because there is more

> of this song or

> poems available under the book called "Grace and

> Mercy in Her

> Wild Hair : Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess ,

> translated by

> Clinton Seely and Leonard Nathan. However they

> have only translated

> the songs by Ramprasad Sen (1720-81)(an accountant

> by vocation) poet

> who lived during the governance of famed Kali Ma

> devotee, King

> Krishnachandra Ray of Krishnanagar in Bengal.

 

 

 

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