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| author = [[Sitanshu Yashaschandra]]
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| country = India
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
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| publisher = R. R. Sheth & Co., [[Mumbai]]
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| pub_date = 1986
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| media_type = Print
| pages = 130 (1st ed.)
| awards = [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (1987)
| isbn = 978-93-80051-19-2
| isbn_note = (4th ed.)
| oclc = 20357562
| dewey = 891.471
| congress = MLCMA 2009/00327 (P) PK1859.S5638
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'''''Jatayu''''' is a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] poetry collection by [[Sitanshu Yashaschandra]] published in 1986. It is a collection of [[surrealistic]] poems based on [[Hindu mythology|Indian mythology]], romantic temper, modern consciousness, and nature. It won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1987.

==Contents==
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|title = <center>"Jatayu, A title poem"</center>
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|description = Audio 7 minutes 46 seconds, recited by Sitanshu Yashaschandra
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Jatayu includes 34 poems divided into eight mutually unconnected sections. Each section has a line or a stanza taken from a poem to serve as a caption. The critic [[Dhirubhai Thaker]] has classified these poems in five categories; surrealistic poems, poems based on Indian mythology, poems of romantic temper, nature poems, and poems reflecting modern consciousness.<ref name="Thakar1999">{{cite book|last=Thaker|first=Dhirubhai P.|authorlink=Dhirubhai Thaker|title=Glimpses of Gujarati literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3NjAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Gujarat Sahitya Akademy|location=Gandhinagar|isbn=81-7227-061-5|pages=122–177}}</ref>

Of the six surrealistic poems, "Pralay" (The flood) and "Moen-jo-dado: Ek Surreal Akasmaat" are considered the best by several critics. "Pralay" presents a feeling of death or destruction, with the help of situations described in several modes of narration. Sitanshu has used images like the [[cobra]], the moon, [[pallbearer]]s, [[Pest (organism)|pests]], a pregnant maiden, flood, famine, fire, a woman and [[nothingness]] to arouse the feeling of death or destruction.<ref name="Thakar1999"/><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Choudhuri |editor-first=Indra Nath |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: I-L |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z4ruAQAACAAJ |date=2016 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |location=Ahmedabad |page=2475 |isbn=978-81-260-4758-1}}</ref>

The title poem, "Jatayu", is an experiment in [[Akhyana]], a poetic form of medieval Gujarati literature inspired by the character of [[Jatayu]] in the epic ''[[Ramayana]]''. It presents a feeling of the distressful condition of modern man.<ref name="Satchidanandan2001">{{cite book|last=Chandrakant|first=Topiwala|authorlink=Chandrakant Topiwala|editor=K. Satchidanandan|editor-link=K. Satchidanandan|title=Indian Poetry: Modernism and After : a Seminar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AXiNXRM_KzMC&pg=PA93|year=2001|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1092-9|page=93|chapter=Chapter 7: The Legacy of Modernism in Gujarati}}</ref>

==Reception==
''Jatayu'' was well received by readers and critics. Dhirubhai Thaker acclaimed the poems for their technique of sound of words, symbols and surreal diction. He further added that in some poems like "Haa" and "Ghero", which however are fine pieces of imagery, the language loses its sharpness due to the long and unclear expressions.<ref name="Thakar1999"/>

The book was selected for the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1987.<ref name="George1992">{{cite book|author=K. M. George|authorlink=K. M. George (writer)|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfpjAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-7201-324-0|page=579}}</ref> It had its first edition in 1986, second in 1991, third in 2000, and fourth in 2009. The fourth edition includes an audio CD of poems recited by the poet himself.

==Translation==
The books were translated by [[Chandra Prakash Deval]] into [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]] in 1996.<ref name="Rao2004">{{cite book|author=D. S. Rao|title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JDsBBDoMccC&pg=PA135|year=2004|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-2060-7|page=135}}</ref> The title poem, ''Jatayu'', has been translated by [[Rachel Dwyer]] into English.{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Google books|id=eAA7JME-rXgC}}

[[Category:1986 books]]
[[Category:1986 poems]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language poetry collections]]
[[Category:Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works]]
[[Category:Indian poetry collections]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian books]]

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