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| name = Purvalap<br />
| image = Purvalap title page.jpg<br />
| caption = title page of Purvalap<br />
| author = [[Manishankar Bhatt]] "Kant" <br />
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| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] <br />
| subject = tragedy of love and life<br />
| genre = ''Khandkavya'' ([[Narrative poetry]]), [[Sonnet]]<br />
| published = 1923<br />
| publisher = Munikumar Manishankar Bhatt<br />
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| media_type = Print<br />
| pages = <br />
| oclc = 22860996<br />
| congress = PK1859.B456 P8<br />
| dewey = 891.471<br />
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'''''Purvalap''''' ({{lang-gu|પૂર્વાલાપ}}) is a posthumously published collection of poems by [[Kavi Kant|Manishankar Ratnji Bhatt]] alias Kavi Kant, in 1923.<ref name="Das1991">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA574|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|page=574}}</ref> Kant has invented a new form of ''Khandkavya'' by blending the [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Sanskrit]] concepts of [[tragedy]]. Kant has given many literary significant poems by this work such as ''Vasant vijay'', ''Chakravakmithun'', ''Devyani'' and ''Sagar Ane Shashi''.<ref name= "pl">{{cite book|url=|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Navaratri To Sarvasena|volume=4|first=Mohan|last=Lal |publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1991 |isbn= 9788126012213|page=3471}}</ref><br />
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== Content ==<br />
[[File:Kant's poem Tane Hu Jou Chhu Chanda.jpg|thumb|''Tane Hu Jou Chhu Chanda'', a poem from ''Purvalap'' written by Kant in 1901]]<br />
The poems of this book mainly deals with the fusion of personal life and impersonal pursuit. The poem ''[[Vasant Vijay]]'' deals with a significant moment before [[Pandu]]'s death. It deals with cursed Pandu's sexual desire with his wife [[Madri]] resulting in his death. Another poems namely ''Chakravakmithun'' is based on a popular myth of ''Chakravaks'', the bird pair, doomed to be separated every evening. There are few more poems, such as ''Viprayoga'', ''Manohar murti'' and ''Apni rat'' which express intensity of love for his wife.<ref name= "pl"/><br />
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* {{Internet Archive|id=in.ernet.dli.2015.537745}}<br />
* [https://ekatra.pressbooks.pub/purvalap/ Purvalap] on Ekatra Foundation<br />
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