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'''''Pavanadūta''''' (पवनदूत) or ''Wind Messenger'' was composed by [[Dhoyin]] or Dhoyī, a [[poet]] at the court of the [[Lakshmana Sena|Sena king Lakshmana]] who ruled [[Gauḍa (region)|Gauda]], in what is now [[Bengal]], during the latter part of the twelfth century CE. His Pavanadūta is probably the earliest surviving example of the many [[Sandesha Kavya|messenger poems]] which were written in imitation of the ''[[Meghadūta]]'' or Cloud Messenger by [[Kālidāsa]]. It tells the story of [[Kuvalayavatī]], a [[gandharva]] maiden from the south who falls in love with King Laksmana when she sees him during his victory tour of the world. She asks the south wind to take her message to the king at his court.<br />
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The theme, as of all messenger poems, is [[viraha]], separation in love. Allusions to romance are never far away. While Dhoyin devotes 48 out of 104 [[stanza]]s of Pavanadūta to describing the wind’s journey from [[Sandal mountain]] in the south to king Lakshmana’s palace in [[Vijayapura]] in Bengal, he spends nearly as long a time (38 stanzas) on the message, in which the lovelorn condition of Kuvalayavatī and the wonderful qualities of the king are described in detail.<br />
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==English translations==<br />
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The [[Clay Sanskrit Library]] has published a translation of ''Pavanadūta'' by Sir [[James Mallinson]] as a part of the volume ''Messenger Poems''.<br />
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