Monsoon, Geography, and Existentialism in K?lid?sa’s Meghad?ta

Sashikanta Barik

doi:10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i04.1151

Monsoon, Geography, and Existentialism in K?lid?sa’s Meghad?ta

Author(s)	Dr. Sashikanta Barik
Country	India
Abstract	Human existence in isolation is a great challenge. Morbid and depressingly suicidal are the experiences, when there is a narrow confinement without the human voice and human contact. It is claustrophobic like a lone presence in a cathedra. However, man in alienation with a green contact is a possibility to foil the anxiety. His presence in the widening circle of a green Nature is a remedial therapy to sick mentality. A meditative silent intercourse amidst the green hues is a healthy tonic to neutralise the contemporary ills resulting in the din and bustle of life. She can neither talk more walk, but her immobility can hear the human voices, feel the agonies of his or her heart, and miraculously support him or her to ease the pain he is suffering from. In this context, the paper attempts to make a green study of K?lid?sa Meghad?tam, where Megha or the cloud, in sky in early ???dha in the month of mid-June to mid-July with a tremendous aerial traverse from Southern hemisphere in Northern hemisphere having extra ordinarily supernatural skill coupled with masculine potency helps overcome the existential crisis of a demi-god, Yak?a who is awfully punished to stay in isolation on the R?magiri mountain of Earth for a period of one year, from his newly married wife Yak?i??. As a classic of world literature, K?lid?sa’s Meghad?ttam, a long elegiac narrative poem, in the way of ancient story-telling method has tried to redefine the problem of existential dilemma by revisiting the age-old story of Brahmavaibarta Pur??a, whore Lord Krishan was narrating the importance of ???dha K???a Yogin? Ek?da?? to king Yudhi??hira of Hastin?pura small episode of love-separation-union in the larger dimension of a grand narrative. Cloud vegetates, copulates like a sexually potent force, creates fertility and carries the love-message of a lover on Earth to Alak?pur? on Him?laya, proving at last a faithful servant for a cursed man Yak?a (Hemam?li) and his virtuous wife Yak?i?? (Vi??l?k??). The wonderful geographical route of cloud or Megha as a carrier of love-message from R?magiri to Alak? is a retelling of the fact that mankind is sustained by weaving a close organic interdependence between the green Nature and human beings, through a network of ecology.
Keywords	Existential Crisis, Elegiac Narrative, Brahmavaibarta Pur??a, Green Study, Ecology
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On	2025-08-23
DOI	https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i04.1151
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g9zx9t

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